Re: [LARTC] IPSec gateway configuration

[Eugene Butan <psi@mikrotik.com>]

Hello Vlad,

Why just not to use PPPoE between your gateways and clients?
This way you will be sure that only authenticated clients will be given 
Internet access.

Eugene

On Monday 21 March 2005 16:12, Vlad Adomnicai wrote:
> Hi,
>   I'm trying to build an ipsec gateway and somewhere I'm doing something
> wrong.
>
>   I have a couple of routers that have clients in their back. All the
> routers are connected into a switch. In that switch I also have a
> computer that provides internet access to the clients.
>    I would like to setup some sort of autentification (don't need
> encryption), to allow me to give access to different services to
> clients. Diferenciating services I can do on the internet gateway, but
> on the routers I have to be certain that a certain IP is not stolen.
>   I have set up ipsec so that if a client pings his gateway, it will
> work only if he has the same key as defined on the server. However, if
> he pings the internet gateway, it will work, no matter what I do. I
> would like the router to validate all packets to the outside LAN. Also I
> would like to achieve this with the lowest CPU utilization possible
> although this isn't critical. (about 150 clients behind one router
> (p2-400/p3-600)).
>
>   The documentation that I have found was only how to establish secure
> connection between two computers, but what I need is to get outside of
> it and if possible to not use VPN, because I want the clients that are
> in the same LAN have maximum trasnfer speeds.
>
>   Thx for any suggestions in advance.
>
> Vlad Adomnicai
>
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