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| Does GNAT Box System Software Support VPN? |
| Yes. The GNAT Box System Software
[Except for GB-PRO]* supports IPSec and
IKE based VPNs. This allows for
point-to-point and mobile VPNs,
including static-to-static and dynamic
to static based configurations.
*GB-Pro only supports IPSec based VPNs
(Pre-shared Key with point to point VPNs
with both ends having a static IP address)
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| What is the GNAT Box VPN Client? |
| GNAT Box VPN Client is a Windows-compatible software product
that secures data communications sent from a desktop or
laptop computer across a public or private TCP/IP network.
When the GNAT Box VPN Client operates on an unprotected
public network, such as the Internet, it creates a virtual
private network (VPN) between end users. |
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| Do I have to use the GNAT Box VPN Client? |
| You may use whatever VPN client you wish at your remote
location. However, you would still need to purchase the GNAT
Box Mobile VPN Client licenses for your firewall. Also, it
is important to note that GTA?s support does not include
assistance with the installation and configuration of VPN
clients that are provided by other vendors. |
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| What is the GNAT Box VPN Client used for? |
| The GNAT Box VPN Client supports secure
client-to-gateway or client-to-client
communications. Traveling ?road
warriors,? for example, can telecommute
from their home or virtual offices to
the main office through the Internet or
other dial-in remote access devices for
secure client-to-gateway communications.
Organizations that require a low-cost
solution for secure communications among
their employees or members across a
private LAN, WAN, or individual dial-up
connections, for another example, can
use the GNAT Box VPN Client for secure
client-to-client communications.
The GNAT Box VPN Client is compatible
with Windows 95, 98, NT4, or 2000. The
VPN client operates with a supported
GTA firewall system (GB-1000 or GB
Flash) in the ESP tunnel mode.
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| Does GNAT Box VPN interoperate with any other vendor?s VPN? |
| Yes. We have instructions for
configuring the GNAT Box System Software
to work with several other vendor?s VPN
solutions including: Cisco PIX,
Netscreen, Checkpoint, Watchguard,
Sonicwall, and Snapgear. Other products
may be also work, however, documentation
is only provided for the above vendors. |
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| Which encryption algorithms does GNAT Box VPN support? |
| DES, 3DES, AES(Rijndael/FIPS-197), Blowfish, Twofish and
Cast128. |
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| Which encryption algorithms does GNAT Box VPN Client support? |
| DES and 3DES are supported. |
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| How does GTA handle VPN licensing? |
| There are two types of licensing: VPN
connections between two firewalls and
VPN connections between a mobile client
and the firewall.
All commercial GTA firewalls support
IPSec VPN. There is no limit (other
than the number of users supported by
the respective firewall product) to the
number of users that can utilize a VPN
between two firewall products.
Licenses for Mobile VPN clients are
handled on a per-user basis. Mobile
Client VPN is supported on all GTA
firewalls except GB-Pro. The GB-1000,
GB-Flash and RoBoX-25 ship with one
user license of GNAT Box Mobile
VPN Client. GNAT Box VPN Client is sold
individually or in multi-packs. The VPN Client activation
code is
established based on the number of
VPN Clients purchased. This
allows the GTA Firewall to control the
number of concurrent VP connections.
While the VPN Client software maybe
installed on several remote machines,
only the number of VPN clients allowed
under the VPN Client license will be
able to contact the firewall at the same
time.
NOTE: By default the RoBoX 10-user
version does not include any VPN
capabilities. A VPN option must be
purchased to activate this feature.
Once activated it provides the ability
to do site to site VPN and includes one
user license for the VPN Client software.
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| How do I setup Microsoft's PPTP VPN to work with GNAT Box System Software? |
| Read the online tutorial PPTP and GNAT
Box System. This tutorial contains links to
many excellent documents on PPTP and
links to PPTP resources. |
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