Re: VPN - Network Novice Questions

Can the routers be a VPN servers? You may want to setup IPSec site to site VPN. Otherwise, you may have some issues because of using DC as VPN server.

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<porbarfarms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:657f8287-592e-4e2f-8900-23111c23c23c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
At our main office we have a Windows 2003 Server running as a DC and a
Terminal Server - I know not recommended but we have to cut corners on
hardware expenses temporarily. We are setting up a remote office that
will be using Thin-clients with the Windows CE 5.0 OS. Our phone
company is installing a VoIP system at the remote office and will also
be setting up a VPN from the remote office to the main office (they
support the Voip here too and have their router in place) and they
will supply the router at the remote location. We have a static IP at
each location.

The remote clients will login to the Terminal Server with Active
Directory/Domain credentials.

Here is our current network setup:

Location A: Main Office

Server =Windows 2003 Standard Edition
Clients: all XP Pro
Running DHCP = Yes -- handing out addresses: 192.168.1.xxx to local
clients
# of NICs = 1
LAN IP: 192.168.1.1
Subnet Mask:255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.254 -- router IP
DNS Server: 192.168.1.1
Internet Connection: Cable

Location B: Remote Office

Server: None
Clients: Wyse Winterms with Windows CE5.0
Internet Connection: DSL

Here are our questions:

1. Should the router at the remote site run DHCP or do you typically
let the remotes get IP addresses from the Server at the main location?
Or, do we statically assign IPs to the remotes and turn off DHCP on
the router?

2. What IP address range should the remotes use? For example,
192.168.2.xxx?

Thanks





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