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The Cisco RV042 Dual WAN VPN Router, formerly part of the Linksys Business Series, is designed and built for small businesses. It provides connection sharing and secure remote access at the heart of your network to allow your employees to access the resources they need to be productive. The second WAN port can be used for backup or to connect to a second provider to increase bandwidth. Strong security features include VPN, a proven firewall, and an optional security service that helps fight spam, viruses, and other threats. The built-in switch can connect devices in the office or additional switches.
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Technical Details
- LAN Ports - 4 10/100 Mbps RJ-45- WAN Ports - 2 10/100 Mbps RJ-45
- Weight - 1.27 lbs.
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By Marcus Kirk (Ashburn, Va)
The router works great and is easy to set up. Very nice utilization of Dyn DNS for assigning different FQDNs per external interface. The "but.." part is the VPN- I still havnt gotten it to work yet. Guess Im actually going to have to read something other than the provided docs on this one....
Great product though- totally happy w it!
By J. W. (Irvine, CA)
It was easy to install. I could easily configure NAT and VPN works fine as well. I can access to my work PC from home by using VPN software. I don't know how secure it is but my work does not require much security.
I never call for support. So I don't have any comment or rate for Product Support. Actually, I've been using their forum to ask question and it's very helpful. You can answer pretty quickly from gurus as soon as you post your question.
I would recommend this product to small office with dedicated internet line.
By Maxim Masiutin (Chisinau, Republic of Moldova)
Pros:
1. Good speed when it comes to load balancing two incoming 100Mbit connection from two different providers;
2. Load balancing is easy to setup;
3. Does not hang;
4. Silent, has no fan;
5. Stateful packet inspection firewall;
6. Support time synchronization with time servers and updates dynamic DNS records without hassle, unlike cheaper routers.
Cons:
1. Does not support IGMP snooping (unlink simple D-link routers) which is required to watch IPTV;
2. The case becomes hot when the device is installed horizontally, since the air flow holes are located on the sides. But if the device is put vertically, the normal air flow restores and the case becomes of normal temperature;
3. It's a challenge to setup the router to not use a provider which does not pass packets due to a problem somewhere on the provider's side on a third or fourth hop.
By Craig Brown
I needed a low-cost solution to setting up a tunnel from my home office to my comany's data center. On the surface, the RV042 appeared to be the proper solution.
After receiving a brand new unit, I attached the device and attempted to set up a tunnel between my home office and my Cisco ASA 5510 in the data center. Within 20 minutes, the tunnel was up on IPSec, but then the problems began.
Every packet sent through the tunnel was greeted by the ASA with an error of
"Unsupported message length of 1045987235"
or some other rediculous length. As it should, the ASA dropped the packet and failed to respond.
Calling customer support was futile, as several of their techs had never heard of connecting a VPN tunnel to an ASA unit. Failing to find any error in my VPN setup, I was directed to the ASA support, who, because they were "supporting" an RV042, and not my ASA's (which are under contract), wanted $400/hour in order to provide any support beyond "we need a credit card number".
Not having a spare several hundred dollars, I broke out my test equipment. It turns out that there are several IP bugs in this device.
1. My ISP cannot (or will not) assign me a static IP address, so I had to use FQDN IKE authentication. It took me a while to figure out that the Local group's authentication was used for the Remote group FQDN.
2. With dynamic addressing, the IP packets sent had an unitinitialized message length, causing the ASA to deny routing.
3. NAT-T (NAT Traversal in the RV042) does not properly function, and the NAT-T wrapper has an uninitialized message length in the IP packet.
Finally, RV042 to RV042 tunnelling is the only tested configuration of this device. Connections to any type of enterprise level device (PIX/ASA) is not only untested, but unsupported by Cisco's Small Business help center.
I was forced to return this device as an unusable paperweight, despite the marketing by Cisco that tunneling to an enterprise-level VPN server is a fully supported configuration. I know that Linksys has always been small/inexpensive equipment without all of the features of a "real" device, but given the level of support I have received for this issue, I am now starting to question if I will place ANY Cisco equipment in my datacenters. If this is a taste of the future, then I will miss the "good old days" terribly.
By Helen J. Casper (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
I've used Amazon for a decade now and almost never post a negative review.
I bought this to allow VPN but to also consolidate a DSL and Cable incoming connection. I was never able to get it to work properly with my modems and my wireless routers on opposite sides of this thing. Connections to the outside world would get confused about where they were coming from one moment to the next. The whole experience was world's worse than I thought, and I never even got to the point of trying the VPN which sounds like it doesn't work quite right either.
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