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Connecting a Sonicwall to OpenVPN
Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:56 am
by 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!!
Re: Connecting a Sonicwall to OpenVPN
Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:21 am
by maikcat
Openvpn uses SSL/TLS and creates tun/tap interface...
its incompatible with: IPSec , PPtP , L2TP.
Michael.
Re: Connecting a Sonicwall to OpenVPN
Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 12:33 pm
by 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/200 ... unnel.html
Re: Connecting a Sonicwall to OpenVPN
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 7:23 am
by 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.
Re: Connecting a Sonicwall to OpenVPN
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 5:12 pm
by 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.
Re: Connecting a Sonicwall to OpenVPN
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 7:15 am
by 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.