Interoperability with WatchGuard T80

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Dale Kowalewski

• October 20, 2022 14:27

I'm purchasing a Firewalla Purple, and I need to know if I can create a standard VPN tunnel between it and a WatchGurad T80.  I need to extend VoIP phone services across that VPN to the PBX at the core location.  Kind of new to the security side (thank you Firewalla for making security easier for us home users!)

Thanks in advance for any responses.

Dale

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  Firewalla

  • October 20, 2022 16:37

  Does the watchGuard support openvpn or wireguard protocols? if it does, you should be able to do client to server VPN with it. (anyconnect may also work)

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  James Willhoite

  • November 18, 2022 14:23

  WatchGuard has mobile SSL which I think is compatible with OpenVPN. The WatchGuard at work had it and while I was able to get my Firewalla to connect to it, it was slow and caused some issues. I ended up installing StrongSwan for IKEv2 VPN between my Firewalla and the WatchGuard. Worked like that for about a year (maybe more). While that worked, it was a little cumbersome as if the internet went down on the Work Side, sometimes my tunnel would not notice and I would have to SSH into the Firewalla and restart StrongSwan. Wasn't a big deal but I hated how I had to do that every now and then. Also I seemed to drop connection every now and then for a few seconds because of the ReKey. Which was not good for my SIP while on the phone.

  What I did a few months ago was install a Hyper-V Ubuntu with WireGuard. I've had that set up with a Site-to-Site and have had ZERO issues. In fact, work is going to take some of the L2TP-VPN users and move them to the WireGuard. Part of it might be the high load on the Firewall, so moving the connections off the firewall have helped speed the network up, and my network speed between my home and work has increased.

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