Do I need a VPN to secure communication over a T1 line?
- by Seth
I have a dedicated T1 line that runs between my office and my data center. Both ends have public IP addresses.
On both ends, we have a T1 routers which connect to SonicWall firewalls.
The SonicWalls do a site-to-site VPN and handle the network translation, so the computers on the office network (10.0.100.x) can access the servers in the rack (10.0.103.x).
So the question: can I just add a static route to the SonicWalls so each network can access each other with out the VPN? Are there security problems (such as, someone else adding the appropriate static route and being able to access either the office or the datacenter)? Is there another / better way to do it?
The reason I'm looking at this is because the T1 is already a pretty small pipe, and having the VPN overhead makes connectivity really slow.
