Any routers with VPN clients?

[ghostmark]

We have a small business in Asia where we are currently connected to a VPN service over ADSL through an Asus NT-16 WiFi router which contains a VPN client.

This is very useful in the office as our smart phones, tablets etc. do not need a VPN client installed.

Due to semi-frequent ISP downtimes we would like to connect to multiple ISPs with the VPN client in the router.

We searched the Internet looking for dual WAN routers that have this feature and could not find any.

Our thinking now is that maybe we could get a good deal on an older model Cisco router on eBay.

The question is what would be a good low end Cisco router that would allow us to configure a VPN client on some of the interfaces?

 

[bill001g]

Any router with a modem inside ...like dsl or cable greatly limits your selection of routers. A router with dd-wrt or other third party software is the normal recommendation but if you need dsl then it is going to be tough. If a by a cisco router you mean a commercial router that is going to be expensive. Again you need the DSL interface card but even harder is the security license that allows you run VPN. Cisco packages this with their firewall IOS images. These tend to be kinda high cost if you obtain them legally.

I would first see if you can somehow run your current router as a bridge so you can eliminate the need for a dsl modem in a router.

At that point you can look at a dd-wrt based solution or many of the small firewalls you can obtain that have vpn abilities.

 

[ghostmark]

Any router with a modem inside ...like dsl or cable greatly limits your selection of routers. A router with dd-wrt or other third party software is the normal recommendation but if you need dsl then it is going to be tough. If a by a cisco router you mean a commercial router that is going to be expensive. Again you need the DSL interface card but even harder is the security license that allows you run VPN. Cisco packages this with their firewall IOS images. These tend to be kinda high cost if you obtain them legally.

I would first see if you can somehow run your current router as a bridge so you can eliminate the need for a dsl modem in a router.

At that point you can look at a dd-wrt based solution or many of the small firewalls you can obtain that have vpn abilities.

Thanks - it seems like needing a specific license rules out the cheap cisco routers on eBay. We don't need DSL in the router. Our current DSL modem is in bridge mode with our Asus NT-16 router.

Minimally we are looking for a dual WAN router with VPN client support like we get with the Asus NT-16.

I suspect duplicating our setup with another DSL modem and Asus router connected to a second ISP and running both of those connections through a dual WAN router might be problematic.

So we just want multiple ISP connections without having to run VPN clients on our smart phones, tablets, laptops, etc. Is this an unusual setup?

 

[ghostmark]

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[bill001g]

Your main problem is getting a dual wan setup that can run both DSL and VPN.

There are only a tiny handful of consumer grade routers that can even run dual wan. Almost none of these have DSL. I think I know of 1. When you add the requirement to have the ability to run a vpn client on the router you are looking for a device that likely doesn't exist....well at a affordable price.

I suppose you could get another router just like you have. So each ISP would have its own DSL VPN router. You could then get a simple dual wan router and let it select between the 2 DSL devices. It would not even know there was a VPN involved.

You technically wouldn't even need a dual wan router if your end users were willing to detect a ISP outage. You could set the main router at say 192.168.1.1 and the second router at 192.168.1.2 and when it goes down the users would just change the default gateway on their machine to 192.168.1.2. That is all the dual wan router really is doing.