Re: VPN server

Wow! Thanks for all the replies.  As I said, I understand the basic concept;
the devil is in the details.  Let's take the LinkSys Router mentioned by
Carl, or the Netopia mentioned by Jerome.  The LinkSys appears to provide
client-side VPN; the Netopia sort of sounds like it might be a VPN server.
Could I have a LinkSys on either end?  Or a Netopia on my end and let the
users use the MS client?

The Win2K VPN solution sounds like the simplest, unless I can have a LinkSys
VPN router on either end running something more secure than PPTP.

The more interesting solution would be using the OS/400 VPN but it sounds
like it requires client-side software, or possibly a LinkSys VPN router on
the other end.

Time for more reading: O'Reilly (thanks James and Fritz), M$ (thanks Walden)
and IBM (thanks Fritz).

Regards,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
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909 425-0196 fax

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Galgano" <cgalgano2@ediconsulting.com>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 6:55 PM
Subject: RE: VPN server


> The Linksys Router is an interesting animal, because it allows router to
> router level VPN.  So anything behind the router on one side can access
> anything behind the router on the other side without any client
> software.  The default route points to the router and the router does
> the rest.  Very slick.  We are considering deploying this as a back up
> solution to one of our clients who currently uses ISDN to back up their
> Frame Relay network.



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