Originally Posted by
kb9522
Some of the consumer products I have used for hardware VPN have required vendor specific software to use it. In those cases, often times at least one of my platforms was not supported despite my best efforts. Native IPSec clients simply would not authenticate. This was a long time ago though, maybe it's different now.
I don't have any non-computer, non-phone products connected via my VPN. I have a Grandstream Phone that supports OpenVPN, but I haven't needed to connect it to my router (yet), and I haven't configured the router for OpenVPN. dd-wrt will support both OpenVPN and IPSec VPN at the same time.