Recommended hardware for new remote office configuration

[manoratek]

Hello I'm looking for anyone who can provide hardware recommendations to me for networking two offices. Have one host location and one small remote location with about three users and I want to create a site to site VPN over a cable connection and still have the security and performance in place. I'm no networking guru so I'm looking for a router/switch/firewall that is relatively simple to configure yet has the security I need for both locations. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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[Leo Laohoo]

What's your bandwidth?

And what's your budget?  Sorry, I have to ask this question because there are two directions you can use:  Small Buisness (aka Linksys) or Enterprise.

[manoratek]

It's a broadband connection 30mb shared. Ended up purchasing ASA5505 for remote location. Have a Pix 506 at host location. How difficult is it to configure site to site VPN over IPSEC? Any assistance would be appreciated.

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[Richard Burts]

Assuming that you do not have any unusual requirements, configuring a site to site IPSec tunnel between an ASA and a PIX should not be real difficult. There is a GUI for the ASA called ASDM which has a pretty nice wizzard which should walk you through the configuration of the VPN. Depending on the version of code running on the PIX it may also have a version of ASDM that would help you configure the PIX.

HTH

Rick

[Danilo Dy]

I would have choose SA520 or SA540. SA520 even have a wireless feature

Well, for ASA/PIX, you can refer to VPN Tunnel ASDM Configuration for both ASA and PIX in this link http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5855/products_configuration_example09186a0080a9a7a3.shtml

Do note that in the guide, the S2S VPN configuration is between PIX/ASA and Cisco Router. You can replace the procedure in Cisco Router with the procedure from PIX/ASA using the given value in Cisco Router.

Dandy