How crucial is a public IP on WAN port for VPN?

Jul 23, 2007 1 Replies

I got asked this question today by somebody. Whilst I've set up numerous Watchguard firewalls in the last few years, nearly all have been on a conventional public lan, a few have been behind a single static ip nat'd from the router and have worked.



I've spent hours/days/weeks trying to overcome incorrectly nat'd packets for VPN connectivity issues before to know that it is just best avoided. I've never tried setting up a Cisco fw other than having a public IP on the wan ports, so what would happen if I tried NAT?


I have done it a few times with PIX 6.3 and various IOS routers over DSL lines which use private IP Addressing to the ISP. It works fine - virtually all devices now support Nat Traversal.

James

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