Topic: 5.6 will or won't work for this situation

[ryan]

I currently have the following with 5.1.2:

Multiple PPTP connections to 5.6 from internet
IPSEC FreeSwan tunnels to 2 locations
1 at a time MS PPTP outbound through 5.6
10-12 Extranet IPSEC VPN outbound through 5.6

My 5.6 test box is doing everything my 5.1.2 boxes are doing except for the issues regarding VPN protocols & masq with the 2.4 kernel.  If anyone knows how to make these functions work on 5.6, please post how you did it.

If Mitel recommends upgrading to 5.6, what is their position on this posting?  I see no real point in upgrading to 5.5 at this time.  

Thanks for any help,

ryan

[Bill Talcott]

As far as I know, they haven't released a good solution to the VPN problem yet. People have said that the posted fix will fix some connections, but break the ones that were working. I think the fix disabled PPTP masqing for the sake of incoming PPTP (though I haven't really been paying that much attention to that stuff). From what I've seen here, I'd steer clear of 5.6 if you rely on VPN.

5.5 and up use Mailfront. This changes the way some things are done. If you have any mail customizations, you may want to go to 5.5 now and work out the mail issues, then the upgrade to 5.6 when it's fixed will be smoother. I stayed at 5.0 due to some early bugs with 5.1.2, and upgraded to 5.5 when Damien released his SASL addon to support our remote mail needs. The bugs in 5.0 didn't affect us but the new ones in 5.1.2 did, so it seemed silly to upgrade.