<![CDATA[IPSEC in pfSense 1.2.1]]>As I been perusing the forum, it is obvious the release of 1.2.1 is coming 'soon.'  With that said, a couple of question to those who have already deployed or tested IPSEC in 1.2.1 beta/rc.

1.  How does it interoperate with another vendor (using site-to-site) - does it work with Cisco, Sonicwall - please provide the other vendor you verified with (yes I have similar question for 1.2). 
    NOTE:  Not sure it matters since its based off of FreeBSD 7 release which went towards only Fast IPSEC - no longer KAME - hence a question on interoperability.

2.  Does Shrew client work fine with this release?

Thank you.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/10702/ipsec-in-pfsense-1-2-1RSS for NodeTue, 12 May 2026 01:18:46 GMTThu, 04 Sep 2008 02:02:56 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to IPSEC in pfSense 1.2.1 on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:19:25 GMT]]>The Shrew Soft client works with pfSense 1.2.x but in a degraded fashion. That said, I don't think other clients would work any better. The major shortcoming is that the 1.2.x versions of pfSense do not take advantage of the ipsec-tools features which improve compatibility with mobile clients. For a bit more detail, please see the issues section of the Shrew Soft Zywall howto ( it has many similar problems ). http://www.shrew.net/support/wiki/HowtoZywall#KnownIssues

The 1.3 version of pfSense will address most of the 1.2.x shortcomings. Please see this blog entry for more details …
http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=211

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/181716https://forum.netgate.com/post/181716Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:19:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to IPSEC in pfSense 1.2.1 on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:11:54 GMT]]>We were already using fast_ipsec in 1.2 so no change there.

We have wildly differing reports on operability. I work mostly with Draytek routers or other pfSense machines with site-site tunnels.

I do know of atleast one Cisco 3005 VPN concentrator I am connecting 2 site to sites on.

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