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October 1, 2003 at 06:32 AM
stergios_nik

Secure VPN connection

by stergios_nik . Updated 22 years, 6 months ago

Hello.

We have a VPN connectivity problem.

We are trying to access a protected web site via VPN using the special CISCO VPN CLIENT software.

The user after installing the VPN client software gets the following error message while trying to connect:
“Secure VPN connection terminated locally by the client. Reason: Unable to contact the security gateway.”

There are many problems because the IPSec protocol can not be used. We are using NT 4.0.

Everybody is using fake IP addresses inside LAN.

The user told me that he will need for now about 30 VPN concurrent connections.

I asked a technician and he told me that a hardware device (CISCO PIX Firewall 515E) is required for VPN connectivity.

Do we really need the firewall device in order to achieve the VPN connection?

Thank you in advance.

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