All you need is a Windows NT or 2000 system and a network connection (internal, DSL, dial-up, whatever). You assign a 'special' IP address to your trading partner's system and then tell your network routers that anytime it sees a request for that IP address, it should go to the Windows 2000/NT system, establish the VPN connection and then route the request across this VPN connection. If your trading partner has set up the VPN then they will tell you what security they have in place and what to load. Typically, standard Windows VPN security will do it. Once this is in place, any IP request (FTP, SMTP, Telnet, etc.) to the 'special' IP address can trigger the VPN to come up and give you access to your trading partners system(s) and you can do this from any system on your network that can see the Windows box. Best bet is to run it by your networking people first as they may have some firewall issues and they will want to make sure the VPN is one-way (i.e. your partner can't join or get access to your internal network). Andy Andy Brunnock Senior eBusiness Consultant COMPAQ Global Services 5310 Harvest Hill Road Suite 200 Dallas, TX 75230 USA Phone: +1 972-702-4237 Fax: +1 972-702-4493 Pager: +1 800-759-8888 pin 1138240 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] (alphanumeric) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Debbie Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 12:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: VPN's Does anyone use a VPN, virtual private network, to connect to their EDI trading partners? We have a partner who is interested in connecting this way. What hardware, software is involved. If one partner has a VPN setup, can the other partner transmit to that connection by any means, for example using ftp with encryption? Thanks, Debbie Taylor ======================================================================= To contact the list owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/edi-l%40listserv.ucop.edu/ ======================================================================= To contact the list owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/edi-l%40listserv.ucop.edu/
