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Can a 3305 or 4305 meet these VPN requirements?

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I'm looking at doing some testing of cellular routers on Verizon private M2M network and they have very specific requirements to terminate their private ipsec VPN to our network. I have some Netvanta 3305 and 4305 units I pulled out when switching our WAN from point to point T1's to managed MPLS and was hoping they might work. Here are the requirements i got from Verizon and would appreciate any input.

The device used to terminate a Verizon Wireless Private Network VPN must meet the following criteria:

·         Terminate IPSec tunnel in Transport mode.

·         Terminate GRE tunnel.

·         Run BGP.

·         May not be a Juniper device unless it’s older Juniper CPE (SSG series) running ScreenOS (JunOS devices only support Tunnel mode and will not work on Private Network).

·         May not be a Cisco or Juniper firewall/ASA.

·         Any device other than a Cisco router may work, but it will be up to the customer to ensure it meets the IPSec, BGP and GRE requirements. 

*Note that Verizon Wireless will not be able to offer any configuration support or guidance on any device other than Cisco routers.

Thanks,

Mike Wheeler

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Re: Can a 3305 or 4305 meet these VPN requirements?

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Mike,

Both the NetVanta 3305 & 4305 support BGP and GRE natively, but require EFP (Enhanced Feature Pack) upgrade/bundle) for IPsec/VPN support.  In addtion, we only support Tunnel mode VPN is AOS, NOT “Transport”. 

The following similar application/configuration guide mentions that if the far-end device is Cisco and configured for Transport, the Cisco will negotiate (fall back to) Tunnel mode of the ADTRAN .  Of course we cannot make any guarantees about what the Cisco will or will not do, but thought I’d pass this along…

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Mike,

Both the NetVanta 3305 & 4305 support BGP and GRE natively, but require EFP (Enhanced Feature Pack) upgrade/bundle) for IPsec/VPN support.  In addtion, we only support Tunnel mode VPN is AOS, NOT “Transport”. 

The following similar application/configuration guide mentions that if the far-end device is Cisco and configured for Transport, the Cisco will negotiate (fall back to) Tunnel mode of the ADTRAN .  Of course we cannot make any guarantees about what the Cisco will or will not do, but thought I’d pass this along…

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