Connecting a Sonicwall to OpenVPN

dougstech

I have a TZ180 that will be at a branch office (temporarily). Our main router is a DD-WRT (open source). I would like to know if OpenVPN is capable of being an IPsec server for my sonicwall to connect. All my other sites connect via PPTP, which is much simpler (unsecure), except for this one sonicwall which doesn't support it. Here are some screenshots of what I need to input on the sonicwall. Thanks!!

maikcat

Openvpn uses SSL/TLS and creates tun/tap interface...

its incompatible with: IPSec , PPtP , L2TP.

Michael.

dougstech

Oh, ok. From this article, it seems someone was able to get it working (IPcop uses openVPN right?) Although he doesn't go into specifics.

http://steveballantyne.blogspot.com/2006/12/building-site-to-site-vpn-tunnel.html

maikcat

ipcop like other open source based projects (untangle,zeroshell,pfsense etc) support
openvpn...but vendors like cisco , sonicwall not... (watchguard partially supports it).

Regards,

Michael.

dougstech

But my DDWRT is open source and supports being an OpenVPN server...shouldn't that be the same as icop? And if the sonicwall was able to connect to the ipcop, what would be stopping it from connecting to my DDWRT?

Sorry to be so confusing.

maikcat

your primary question was:

I would like to know if OpenVPN is capable of being an IPsec server for my sonicwall to connect.

the answer is no...

Michael.