Re: Virtual Private Network

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giddyup <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have two windows xp computers behind a linksys router. I would like to
be able to access one of these computers from a vista computer while on
the road. I am looking to purchase a linksys/cisco vpn router BEFSX41 and
getting a static ip address. How do I go about this? Do I need
specialized software in addition or can this be accomplished without a lot
of hassle?
Thank you

1. You do not need a static IP address if you use a dynamic DNS service
like www.no-ip.com and use the DUC client on one of your machines.

2. A VPN is great if you want to access your whole LAN remotely, accessing
everything using internal IPs just as though you were back at home/office.
So a VPN would allow you to Remote Desktop into any machine on your LAN
without having to change the default port on each machine and then forward
those ports from your router.

It would be easier for you to just acess one of your machine through Remote
Desktop, without using a VPN, but it is not secure, and open brute force
hacking attempts.

ss.


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