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Site to Site VPN

h2000
Level 1
Level 1

Does anyone know what is the limitation to do site to site VPN involving PIX ?

Thanks.....!!

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ssoberlik
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Level 4

What “limitation” do you want to know about? The PIX can do a lot of VPN tunnels.

rtzen
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Level 1

One particular limitation I just ran into is that the PIX (at least the PIX 506) isn't a router. That is, if you have a PIX-to-PIX VPN plus remote VPN clients connecting to one of those PIXs, the remote client can only see the network behind the PIX it connected to -- it can't see the remote LAN of the PIX-to-PIX connection.

Perhaps this isn't a problem for most people who have a single central site housing all network resources, and remote sites/clients don't have any servers. But if you're trying to setup a distributed intranet with remote clients that need access to services on the networks behind multiple PIXs, this is something you might run into.

I guess you need to add a router into the mix to support traffic between remote clients and remote peers, but I haven't got that far yet. If somebody thinks I'm wrong (and no router is needed), please correct me!