Re: Quick Hardware VPN Connection

Thanks for the help! Sorry If I was confusing. I was hoping to setup
the VPN with little hardware and configuration as possible. We have 2
VPN routers at our disposal. Currently none are in use. I use software
VPN now but I want the full functionality of hardware vpn. Will setting
up a Hardware VPN Router at my remote location do this? IP Sec or PPTP
- I don't know. After reading the Router manual I assume IP Sec. I was
hoping it was as simple as adding a VPN router at the remote location
to VPN to the SBS. Now I am starting to doubt it is that simple....

Current Setup:
Internet == Cable Modem == SBS 2003 == Switch == Computers
(No Router between the modem and the SBS - should there be?)

My real question:
I want full functionality out of my VPN. I have 2 routers at my
disposal. Where do I put them in the network? And how should they be
configured. Please keep in mind that I still have other laptop users
that Software VPN into the network while they are out of the office...

SuperGumby [SBS MVP] wrote:
I think you left a router out of your diagram, is SBS connected direct to
the cable modem or is there a router between? (sounds like there is from
your description)

If so, the VPN tunnel is being terminated on the SBS External network.

Are you trying PPTP or IPSec?

<bkbgc1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1155214862.894048.190180@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
So this is what I thought a hardware VPN Would look like (I am better
at diagrams then writing):

Remote Location PCs
||
VPN Router
||
Cable Modem
||
INTERNET
||
Cable Modem
||
SBS2003 (Main office) (2 NICs)
||
Dell Switch
||
Main Office PCs

But from what I have read it doesn't work this way. I am trying to
connect my computer at a remote office to the SBS with full
functionality. Right now I am using software VPN and it isn't cutting
it. I have 2 Linksys BEFVP41 v2 VPN Modems. Can someone show me the
real way these devices should be setup to reach full domain
functionality?


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