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We are also a small company in terms of numbers of users & size of IT staff. The other guy got our VPN hooked up with help of a consultant & I watched from a distance & not comprehend the details. Previously we used leased phone line from ma bell with AS/400 at HQ & Perle box pretending to be a cluster of remote controllers at the other end. As far as ma bell was concerned we were Point to Point, while as far as AS/400 concerned we were Multi-Point (big bucks ma bell difference). Both AS/400 & Perle were hooked up to modems with ma bell in between. Modems got replaced with Cisco router stuff & ma bell point to point got replaced with VPN. Advantage of VPN was that we can sent AS/400 data, PC data, faxes between our facilities, multi-point for real with ma bell, voice communications over same line, and it costs a whole lot less than phone lines leased for each thing. Our remore site people dial some phone line & it connects them to a local phone line at HQ city. The AS/400 still thinks it is talking to modem to dedicated phone line to Perle. It is a miracle, but I not know any technical details. > Chuck, > > We are a small company with no LAN but we do have frame relay. < Not to drag you into explanation, but how does a VPN figure into this ? > I.E. do I get a "box" to > do VPN and then it gets to the AS/400 over the IP "network", etc ? MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac) +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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