[PCTECH] RE: Communicate from a laptop

["Gary Kuznitz" <docfxit@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi Walden,

Thanks for your input.  My iimmediate need is to protect the wireless 
transmission in the office.  I can easily setup a VPN tunnel between 
the laptop --> over wireless --> to a remote office.   Which covers 
the wireless part easily.  The problem is when I need to surf the 
internet to other locations. Like when I need to transmit to other 
people that don't have VPN setup.  At these times I'd like to have 
the wireless protected.

Thank you,

Gary Kuznitz

> Gary,
> 
> We use W2K as our VPN server (no surprise there, right? <G>) so what we
> did in this situation was deploy a second subnet for all wireless
> access. That subnet, while it has a private IP range (10.100.12.x) is
> still considered by us to be a public network, so there's no direct
> connect between the wireless subnet and our internal network. However,
> the VPN server is connected to that subnet. So when you're wireless you
> need to bring up a VPN connection just as if you were anywhere on the
> internet, and the connection is the same one you'd bring up from home --
> into the same VPN server you'd access from home. 
> 
> What I'm getting at is, do you need a separate VPN server for the
> wireless stuff, or can you setup your current VPN server to handle
> another subnet?
> 
> -Walden
> 
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