Re: Implementing VPN

Hi ,
I have same setup at my office , my network is complitely open source , 
i am planning to impliment VPN at our office ,
If u have some information , u should be share with me . it will be 
pleasure to discuss  any technical query ....

Thanks & Regards
dheerendar srivastav



Scot L. Harris wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 09:13, R. S. Patil wrote:
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>>Dear Friends,
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>>We have many branch offices, Some traveling persons and
>>a few third party corporate S/W developers who are suppose
>>to solve some S/W related problems remotely.
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>>HO has about 20 to 30 Nodes and branches have 5 to 10 nodes.
>>all have Linux Servers and RDBMS based C/S application.
>>All nodes are having W9x/XP running on them.
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>>Now we want to establish a VPN with minimal investment. The data
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>>When searched on google i got two three options like
>>FreeS/WAN, StrongS/WAN, OpenS/WAN and Open VPN.
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>>Can somebody suggest me which option would be better to start with ?
>>some urls to read more on this VPN technology.
>>Management is ready to spare one or more dedicated PCs for VPN
>>gateways but those are Intel based PII/P4 range PCs.
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>I would actually recommend using something like a Netgear VPN device. 
>They are relatively inexpensive (couple of hundred dollars at most). 
>Fairly easy to setup and once in place will require very little
>support.  And if you do have problems setting it up Netgear's support is
>reasonably priced for a per incident case.
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>The biggest problem you are going to have is regards to the dynamic IP
>addressing.  Much of that depends on how often they change your IP. 
>Everytime they do you will need to modify your VPN configurations to
>reestablish them.
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>Now the reality may be more like what I have at home with Brighthouse. 
>My IP address has not changed in well over a year.  But it could change
>tomorrow and every day after that.  
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>So much of it depends on how much time you really want to mess with it. 
>Spend a couple of hundred per site (if that much) and spend a few hours
>setting it up and testing.   Or spend a lot of time (as in days possibly
>weeks) getting one of the other VPN options you mentioned up and
>running.  The VPN service will most likely be just as good either way,
>it really comes down to a time/cost trade off.
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