Re: networking / vpn / dhcp question

From: stuartm (stuart.maxwell_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/23/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:33:28 +1300

Most vpn routers also have the ability to provide DHCP addresses - just
assign that site a specific subnet address and then configure the
clients to get their ip addresses from the dhcp server on the router.
That way if the link does go down, you've still got a running network.

on 24/11/2004 6:21 a.m. James W. Long said the following:
> Hi All:
>
> Larger networking problem. I'm in the design phase of connecting 135 offices
> to
> our corporate office.
>
> Each office has 4 win2k workgroup computers networked together.
> One of these is special.
> I'll call that special one a "remote office server"
> {even though its not a server},
> and I'll cal the other three
> " remote office networked computers".
>
> we want each remote office to establish a full time vpn link
> with coprorate. so thats 135 vpn links to corporate.
>
> ultimately we want to be able to get to the files and shares
> on the remote office server and the files and the shares on
> the remote office networked computers. but lets not
> go all the way there just yet.
>
>
> I think this is a router to router configuration,
> where all the security and encryption is between the the routers.
>
> when the "remote office servers" vpn's in to corporate,
> they appears on our local lan.
>
> everyone will get addresses by DHCP at corporate
>
> and thats were the dillema begins.
>
> our corporate lan is a 10.0.0.x with a mask of 255.255.255.0
> so thats 10.0.0.0/24 I think.
>
> We dont have room in the corporate lan for 135 more clients.
>
> so I was thinking that I might want to go to
> a 10.0.0.0./16 or 10.0.x.x with a mask of 255.255.0.0.
>
> this mask would go on all the servers and all the clients
> and our vpn/firewall at corporate to give us a {much} larger
> address space with which to accomodate the 135 new
> vpn clients (plus plus and then some and thats okay)
>
> First question:
> Can I get a dhcp server to hand out addresses
> like 10.0.0.x up to 10.0.1.135{example)
> sequentially? or is that done thru scopes?
>
> can I control what address the remote office servers get?
> can I force them to have addresess I choose?
>
> for instance I may prefer office #1 to have
> an address such as 10.0.1.x
> and office 5 to have an address of 10.0.5.x
> and office 120 to an address of 10.0.120.x,
> is that possible?
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