Re: Inbound connection to Win XP

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From: Shenan Stanley (news_helper_at_hushmail.com)
Date: 02/05/05 

Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:04:36 -0600

Desert Nerd wrote:
> How many simultaneous inbound (VPN) connections can Windows XP Pro
> accept? And how many simultaneous inbound (VPN) connections can
> Windows 2003 Server accept?

Shenan Stanley wrote:
> Indirectly answering your question:
>
> 10 concurrent network connections to Windows XP Professional.
> 5 concurrent network connections to Windows XP Home edition.
>
> For Windows Server 2003 - ask yourself what your licensing/network
> and hardware limitations are.

Desert Nerd wrote:
> No, not network connections. Inbound (VPN) connections. How many
> inbound VPN connections will Win XP Pro support?

Shenan Stanley wrote:
> How about this...
> Less than or equal to the number of concurrent network connections...

Desert Nerd wrote:
> I don't think that's correct. Going back to my Windows 2000 training,
> Windows 2000 Professional could support a maximum of one inbound
> (VPN) connection, while Windows 2000 server could support up to 256
> concurrent inbound (VPN) connections. I have to believe that Windows
> XP Pro also is capable of supporting only one inbound connection
> because I cannot logon more than one time concurrently. But I just
> need to make sure my logic and understanding are correct before I
> tell my client we need to upgrade the server to Windows Server 2003.

Looking here (at a simple instruction on setting it up):
http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/xpvpnsrv.htm

And then trying it.. And setting the IPs assigned as shown - I got it to
supposedly be able to assign 65,536 addresses. However, in further
researching (as Google works for me) - I suspect the limitation is still
ONE - since this is a WORKSTATION OS.

Your easiest course of action? Try it - come back and post it here. =) 

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