1. Does this device have VPN functionality (how many max clients?) 2. Does it have a built in firewall? (Can I specify custom rule set?)
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1. Yes. Not sure if there is a limit, we have at least 8 VPN clients connected and all is well. I think you can run as many clients as you wish as long as you don't run out of CPU or memory. Mind you, you'll need to do a lot of reading to get a VPN going, this router supports many VPN schemes and nothing is preconfigured for you.2. Yes and yes.
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1.Yes. I don't know how many it can support. I don't think software imposes any limitations. Of course, hardware has finite resources. 2. It uses ipchains, so as good a firewall as ipchains can provide. You can definitely make your own rules. The tutorial even provides for a nice way to secure SSH and to help protect a Web server. Just know what you are getting into, this isn't a Linksys Web gui, but a box you will have to SSH into and learn the CLI. Once you do it is great though. Only issue I have is upnp seems buggy and to really get it working you lose most of your firewall filtering. 1.Yes. I don't know how many it can support. I don't think software imposes any limitations. Of course, hardware has finite resources. 2. It uses ipchains, so as good a firewall as ipchains can provide. You can definitely make your own rules. The tutorial even provides for a nice way to secure SSH and to help protect a Web server. Just know what you are getting into, this isn't a Linksys Web gui, but a box you will have to SSH into and learn the CLI. Once you do it is great though. Only issue I have is upnp seems buggy and to really get it working you... » Read More 1.Yes. I don't know how many it can support. I don't think software imposes any limitations. Of course, hardware has finite resources. 2. It uses ipchains, so as good a firewall as ipchains can provide. You can definitely make your own rules. The tutorial even provides for a nice way to secure SSH and to help protect a Web server. Just know what you are getting into, this isn't a Linksys Web gui, but a box you will have to SSH into and learn the CLI. Once you do it is great though. Only issue I have is upnp seems buggy and to really get it working you lose most of your firewall filtering. « Show Less
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1. Yes, any kind - PPTP, L2TP, IPSec. And servers and clients for all of them.2. Yes, and it is really advanced. Any kind of port forwarding, mark packets or connections for specific routing, Layer-7 filter for blocking or prioritizing traffic like skype or bittorrent and many many more.It don't have 5Ghz and that is only one disadvantage from my side.
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the level is 6 so u can put unlimite user but i think until 20 user is good , work at same time ...they have good firewall and u cna do what u like by rule for VPN i dont test it
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1. Yes, any kind - PPTP, L2TP, IPSec. And servers and clients for all of them. 2. Yes, and it is really advanced. Any kind of port forwarding, mark packets or connections for specific routing, Layer-7 filter for blocking or prioritizing traffic like skype or bittorrent and many many more. It don't have 5Ghz and that is only one disadvantage from my side.
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Try customer service. I bought this as a gift for my dad. I remember it being pretty imtuitive on setting it up in the network settings. I say try contacting Sony or keep even ask google "how do I add my smp-n200 to a VPN".
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To get up to speed (i have some network experience setting up my home lan) I purchased the Dlink 931 here for a little over $30. Made it work with my synology NAS. Had it email me screen shots and videos. Used an android app(ip web cam) to turn my tablet into a wireless ip cmaera and made it work with my NAS and tablet. Anyways there are inexpensive ways to get up to speed and get the experience to setup your own security system. At least you will discover if its within your ability or worth the time required. Good luck.
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I am going to say yes even though I have no used it as a server. I am using it for access and it works great. I have no problems connecting to multiple VPN clients and secure connections.....and it is very fast and dependable --- rarely drops connections.
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http://support.asus.com/FAQ/detail.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=RT-N16&os=&no=39EB5311-E0CD-96D0-7B13-2C4F532929B4 Try the link above and you should be able to accomplish setting up a vpn server inside your network
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First of all I am having trouble getting it to connect to the internet via my AT&T 3G Velocity Wi-Fi adaptor. As for the rest of the configuration I used, which does work nicely. It wirelessly displays itself, you can attach to it and resources like my external network hard drive, printer, other computers via the HUB. I took the RJ45 connection (made it a LAN connection in the Hame software) to a 4 port HUB, , connected a 2TB network hard drive to it, router wise it works great. The Hame issues the IP address's so a mini network is established, just like at my NY home (FIOS network/wireless router), I am setting this up for use on my floating winter home, a 38' Ketch in Florida. Fact is it works great in every way except I have not been able to connect to the internet through it, yet. I download the latest software from Hame, still have to install and retest. I hope this answers your question.......
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No.The Ceton doesn't allow the DHCP server to set a default gateway - it doesn't know how to route requests to people not within your subnet mask. So, it wouldn't know how to reach people on a VPN since those IPs won't be within the wired subnet mask. You'll also have horrid quality because of the limited upstream bandwidth on most internet connections.Ports have nothing to do with it as Marc Davis said. VPN is a straight tunnel as you probably know - port filtering at the ISP does not occur.
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Yes, the device has site-to-site vpn ability as one router acting as a vpn server and the other acting as a vpn client
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I am not sure how many. I have had five on at a time BUT you have software that can manage connections. It will tell you who is on. You can also block devices you don't want on the network. The software is amazing!
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Five users shouldn't be a problem. They have decent tech support. My only beef if the SSL VPN doesn't work due to software issues. The IPSec vpn works just fine and the router has some decent security options. I use the VPN every day and its solid from that perspective.
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i have used vpn to connect to my business server computer. the software was provided by our main software company so i am not certain of the brand. it ran just fine. the lenovo however crased after 60 days,
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The firewall allows you to define Services and ports that you can allow or block based on several schedules. I haven't used these features.
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None. The VPN server is available as a "package" and client software is included.
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http://www.sonicwall.com/app/projects/file_downloader/document_lib.php?t=DS&id=66 TZ105 comes with zero client VPN licenses (max of 5 supported) and supports 5 peer-to-peer (IPSEC) connections
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Hi Vespasian - I did have issues but what I found is that you have to be REALLY REALLY REALLY patient. I'm running the latest firmware (V2.0.5?) and for the longest time unplugged the device as I felt it degrgated my network performance and introduce other issues (i.e. I had issues connecting to the router that it the Sabrent was connected to). Today I decided to give it another shot. I ran SpeakEasy speed test (10x) on both routers that I have, the plugged in the Sabrent to the router (U-verse so it's the one "DSL modem" as well). The Sabrent showed it was connected to the router & I could access the internet on my laptop when connected to the Sabrent, working as a host. I then attempted to connect my laptop directly to the router which the Sabrent was connected and I couldn't - but I could when connected to the other router. I was ready to downgrade to V2.0.1 but on the time it took me to download and switch things around the issue magically resolved itself. YMMV but for the last few hours I have been able to access the internet on both routers (w/o going through the Sabrent) as well as stream music to multiple devices. There is still an issue with lag between my Airplay devices (laptop and jailbreaked iPhone 3GS running AirFloat which turns that into a receiver). Just be patient - my experience is that this isn't the fastest devices but in time my issues were resolved. Good luck.
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Yes, this device does a great job with "VPN", but you only need one for that. The other one is the slave and can be any reliable router that just allows VPN passthru. It does not have to be a VPN server.
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I used the Cisco RV215W VPN router and the QuickVPN software client and it works well. This lets you establish a secure tunnel to the router from a PC (if you don't plan to connect to it remotely you don't need the QuickVPN client).