A Netgear, Dlink or Linksys Router that supports VPN passthrough?

[Jamster1]

Can anybody recommend a Netgear, Dlink or Linksys router that supports
VPN passthrough? I'm currently running ISA providing internet access
through to my users and also wanting to provide VPN access remotely
via dial up or cable to external users. My current router(Dlink
DSL-504) doesn't support this. Ie, I can connect locally to the VPN
server using a VPN connection, but not through an external internet
connection. I'm assuming PPTP is not tunnelled.

 

[Brian Higgins]

why would you feel the need to put ISA BEHIND a quality piece of hardware
such as a DLink or Linksys?? i would think you would want to do it the other
way around to lighten the load on them, and stop them from having to try to
block all inbound traffic, so they don't lock up on you once a day...

BUT to answer the question, Netgear supports VPN passthough very well, and
does not seem to have problem when multiple connections are open. We have a
few clients that use them for the SBS 2003 networks (without ISA)

 

[jamster1]

I'm doing this as extra security. I'm assuming a lot of people do
this. Which Netgear products are these specifically?

 

[Brian Higgins]

actually in my experience no, most people that run ISA use that as their
internet facing firewall (myself including), unless they are using it simply
as a cache server...

any of the ProSafe VPN firewalls should work fine and give you a fairly good
level of reliability. I've never actually used them for the VPN
functionality, they are just an affordable and fairly robust and fast/easy
to use and configure firewall for small offices with less then 20 people...