Re: VPN Routers or XP VPN Clients

Hey there,

In my experience, you may want to consider an identical VPN firewall at each
location and create a VPN tunnel from firewall to firewall. That would
probly be the more secure way of doing it. I recomend www.sonicwall.com or
Cisco pix series firewall routers. Both vendors support VPN. Both are very
reputable. I would personally use cisco pix 501 routers at each location and
do away with ISA server. ISA server sometimes (especially v2004 is more
complicated then its worth). But there are ways to configure ISA server if
need be. Check out www.isaserver.org for more info on that. I think your
goal should be to treat each client as if they were on the LAN side of
things, not as remote desktop clients, and I'm pretty sure each vendor could
present a solution if you explain your goals to them. I'll look into this
more and see what I can come up with. I also have another friend who runs a
cisco pix firewall, but not sure if he has remote sites. Either way, I'll
talk to him about it. So stay tuned...

In the mean time, good luck.
mike
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"SpinTech" <SpinTech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have a remote office that needs to connect to a central office.
> Currently the remote clients access certain caracter based applications
> using a 64 Kb/s Kilostream. However crrent-day requirements need more
> bandwidth and as a result an alternative to the Kilostream is required.
> The proposal is to replace the kilostream with sdsl at the central office
> and adsl at the remote office.
> ADSL/SDSL 1:1 contention is no cheaper than the kilostream and reliability
> is uncertain, but bandwidth is far greater.
> My problem is deciding what hardware I should place at each office.
> A SBS 2003 premium dual homed server will be located at the central
> office.
> Do I treat each workstation as a remote VPN client to the server (as you
> would a Laptop etc)?
> Do I utilise VPN routers and treat each workstation as LAN client?
> Do I use SBS 2003 std (no ISA) and employ VPN routers with firewalls and
> treat each workstation as a LAN client?
> Can 10 remote workstations connect to a remote LAN through one VPN routers
> connection.
> If I go down the VPN router path how do the remote workstations get past
> ISA
> server?
>
>
> Does anyone have any experience in setting up this type of senario?
> Can anyone help?
>


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