Dustin You might have already done this, but you might want to talk to the dsl provider to see if they can provide a VPN solution. Where I work we sell dsl in Natchitoches, LA and we created a VPN of sorts (I think it qualifies as a vpn). It's pretty much all done at the ATM layer. The one we did consists of three offices, a dsl router islocated at each office. The main office has one ATM PVC that points out to the internet, and also two other pvc's that point to the routers at the other two locations. Then each of the routers at the other offices have a single PVC that points to the router at the main office. That makes all the computers appear to be on the same phyisical network. I believe they are all on the same nonroutable network and the router at the main office does NAT for all three locations.
I'm not sure what we charge for this service, or if any of the dsl providers down there are equipped to do the same. But it should be relativly cheap way to do it. I hope you understood all that, my eyes are kind of blurry from about 3 hours of counter strike right now, who knows if this email will make any sense in the morning. =) David Jackson wrote: >Although I know that you don't want to use old hardware, perhaps you >should consider some new, inexpensive hardware, running Linux. A new >disk-less station would be relatively cheap to buy. You don't even need >a fast processor, but the 1.8 Athlon XP's are pretty right now. Just a >floppy drive so that you could use one of the many single-disk router >distros (Coyote Linux is one that I know of, that will support VPN, from >what I recall). > >-David > >On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 15:02, Dustin Puryear wrote: > > >>We are looking for a solution with no major moving parts (ie., HD). >> >>At 02:36 PM 2/24/2003 -0600, you wrote: >> >> >> >>>I had luck on reasonable hardware with OpenBSD/IPSec. It can be >>>configured as a NAT/Firewall/Router, etc. pretty trivially. At speeds up >>>to about 15 Mbit, common hardware does fine. If you have questions about >>>my setup let me know. >>> >>>One more thing - avoid the Symantec VPN boxes at all costs!!!! they blew >>>away the ARP tables on my servers. Had to go around and manually clear >>>the ARP cache on all of my servers. >>> >>>Shannon >>> >>>Dustin Puryear wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>I have a client looking to connect three offices eventually, but only two >>>>right now. We are going to first attempt a VPN solution before looking at >>>>a leased-line solution due to cost. There is a tight budget involved >>>>here, so I am having to avoid some solid choices for the VPN hardware >>>>(ie., Cisco). The Internet connection will be through business DSL with >>>>768Kbit/s down and 256Kbit/s up at both sites. >>>> >>>>Currently I'm taking a look at the Netopia R910. Looks good but >>>>unfortunately there aren't that many reviews. Any other recommendations? >>>>The price range is up to $300 per site. If the product is both a firewall >>>>and VPN gateway that's even better, but VPN is the major issue. >>>> >>>>--- >>>>Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>Puryear Information Technology >>>>Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting >>>>http://www.puryear-it.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>General mailing list >>>>[email protected] >>>>http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>General mailing list >>>[email protected] >>>http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >>> >>> >>--- >>Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Puryear Information Technology >>Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting >>http://www.puryear-it.com >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>General mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > >
