Re: VPN to Single Application and/or Fileserver only?
- From: "Puja Pandey[MSFT]" <pujap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:00:27 +0530
Hi,
Windows XP SP2 is amazing and PPTP connection works very smoothly. To know
what VPN tunnel type to use, you can visit the blog "There are different
types of VPN tunnels like L2TP, PPTP, etc. Which VPN tunnel to use? " at
http://blogs.technet.com/rrasblog/
Thanks,
Puja
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"Karl" <kcox@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi I am very new to VPN technology and have been asked to setup a VPN
> to enable four branch offices to access a fileserver and application
> server located at a fifth office. We have purchased a Linksys VPN
> router for the fifth office and want to setup the computers in the
> branch offices to tunnel in to the VPN router. All of the PCs are
> running Windows XP Pro with SP2. I would prefer to use the VPN
> technology built in to Windows XP if at all possible for simplicit4y's
> sake. Here are my questions/concerns:
>
> 1) I have heard that PPTP (the VPN technology used by Windows) was
> severely broken at some point. Has it been fixed by SP2? Would you
> guys reccomend using it?
>
> 2) My limited understanding of VPN technology tells me that once a
> computer has established a VPN tunnel from a branch office to the fifth
> office, that computer will be relying soley on the Internet connection
> of the fifth office for any and all web browsing/email/etc. Is this
> correct? If possible I would prefer that the branch office computer
> rely solely on their local Internet connections for web browsing, and
> only use the fifth office's web connection for accessing the file and
> application servers located in that fifth office.
>
.
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