Axsguard

If you’ve ever had the “pleasure” of building an IPSec tunnel between 2 endpoints from different vendors, you’ll know how smooth that usually goes. Today I was building a tunnel between a Fortigate 70D and an Axsguard Gatekeeper, as you can guess, things didn’t go as planned. Fortigate Let’s start by creating the tunnel on the Fortigate. Create a new tunnel and select the Custom VPN Tunnel template. Next, fill in all the phase 1 settings. In this example, I’m using 3DES and SHA1. While 3DES is still considered as secure, I would recommend against using it in production, mainly because of the speed. If you want to use the public IP address as the local ID, leave the field empty. Fortigate will automatically send its public IP as the local ID. Keep this in mind when you’re behind a NAT device. ...