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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 28/03/2020 18:58, Kevin Shackleton
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<div>We are, like many businesses, working from home as much as
possible - I have not been in-office for the last fortnight.</div>
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<div>Up to this time we have not bothered with an office router
that "does a VPN". Now a need has arisen and the business owner
bought a D-Link DIR-895L/R, connected to our NBN modem. This
device offers "QuickVPN", using a pre-shared key. As a router
it's working fine (though it lacks SIP, we will add on a Cisco
ATA)<br>
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<div>So far we have not been able to make the VPN gateway work,
from Windows or Linux clients. We're getting authentication
failures, though we have tried all sorts of combinations of
protocols.<br>
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<div>I'm interested in ideas and words of experience on the
subject:</div>
<div> - any chance the modem is affecting the VPN?</div>
<div> - comments on the selected device (is anyone using
"QuickVPN"?) and recommended alternative devices</div>
<div> - comments on re-flashing the device to DD-WRT which D-Links
says is supported. My main concern with a re-flashing is that
the wi-fi may lose some of its capabilities - not really a big
worry.</div>
<div> - thoughts about if a VPN using a PSK is really adequate
these days, or if we should not re-flash and start using openVPN
with large certificates</div>
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I just use IPFire behind the NBN router, done. (IPCop before that)
Just port forward everything to the firewall.<br>
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Possible overkill, but it works well and it came with 4 network
ports already !<br>
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