how to enable the vpn ports in the pix firewall

Sep 13, 2005 4 Replies
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DEAR ALL:


i have this problem,how can i configure my cisco pix firewall 515e to enable one of my inside network users to connect to a remot host using vpn tunnel, what i mean, which ports should be enabled on my pix. or what is the required configuration. note that: its not pix-pix vpn tunneling.


regards



A lot of informations are there :

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VPN (IPSec) PIX to Client part)

How your remote host create the vpn ?

See ya !

Jov

In article , asj wrote: :i have this problem,how can i configure my cisco pix firewall 515e to :enable one of my inside network users to connect to a remot host using :vpn tunnel, what i mean, which ports should be enabled on my pix. :or what is the required configuration. :note that: its not pix-pix vpn tunneling.

We get this question a lot. Cisco's web site has lots of examples, or you could refer to old postings such as

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well, it depends on what sort of VPN your inside users uses to connect from inside and outbound to a remote site.

Todays "normal" IPSEC ports are udp/500 and udp/4500 HTH Martin Bilgrav

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(in VPN (IPSec) PIX to Client part)

thanx jov; i'd like u to know that when i tried to connect to the remote vpn server using microsoft vpn connection and from a bublic ip address the coonection was success. but though inside network and behind the firewall connection was fail.any way i dont know how the remote host creates the vpn. thanx a lot

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