# Alternative's to RRAS.

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alternatives-to-rras/192554
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**Created:** [September 20, 2007, 1:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alternatives-to-rras/192554 "2007-09-20T13:22:33Z")
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### Author: ![noahTHEpurdy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/87869e/32.png) [@noahTHEpurdy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/noahTHEpurdy)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alternatives-to-rras/192554/9 "2007-09-20T18:09:09Z")

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> [@Shannonille (full course): Saturday, July 14th (evening $78)](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/shannonille-full-course-saturday-july-14th-evening-78/31811/8):
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> do the pix’s have a web interface or are they soley IOS configured. That would be my only worry as the IOS isn’t completely intuitive especially if you have never seen it. other than the config, they are solid boxes.

Psssh. CiscoIOS is easy peasy. And by typing a ? you can work yourself through commands you are not familiar with.

> [@Shannonille (full course): Saturday, July 14th (evening $78)](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/shannonille-full-course-saturday-july-14th-evening-78/31811/8):
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> can you configure a linux distro for vpn and remote access? like are you just doing port forwarding and nat? if so that might be one of the easier and cheaper solutions. Get a machine with 2 nics and check out smoothwall. [http://www.smoothwall.org/](http://www.smoothwall.org/)

That’d be another option but I think his best bet is simply a Cisco PIX; cheap, compact, and everything’s there.

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