Re: Recommendations for VPN

Leythos, I looked briefly at the Watchguard products. Do you use them as
both a firewall and VPN appliance? Can we dispense with ISA on the SBS
server (I'm thinking here of the SBS2008 upgrade to come). Do you use the
Watchguard anti-virus as well, and if so, can this replace a server based
anti-virus such as Trend? Thanks in advance.

"Leythos" <void@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <OF3nBPU$IHA.2244@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
garysmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
I'm looking for recommendations for VPN hardware to connect 4 small
branch
locations to our main office. We currently run SBS2000 and we have set up
for occasional VPN connections (not permanent or full-time, but just
conneccted when needed). We're in the process of upgrading to SBS2003
this
summer, and then hopefully SBS2008 when it's out.

Can you point me to hardware needed on both SBS end and the 4 remote
locations which will allow a full time VPN connection, so, for example we
can back-up the remote locations at night to the main SBS location.

Also, am I correct in assuming that we will need dedicated IP addresses
for
the 4 remote locations.

WatchGuard X700e series firewall for the main office, then X20 units for
the branch office locations.

Fixed IP at each location unless you want to use DynDNS.org, but it's
normally a problem without fixed IP's.

You also need FAST connections in both U/D directions if you want to
share files.

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