Give it a shot, I think 128k or 256 may be
too slow when the internet is bogged or you've got a lot over the
pipe. I'll tell you from
experience if you plan on having more than 30 at a location then you might want
to look somewhere else. I've
seen strong Netscreen Setups and they can handle a
large volume but the cost is very high and you ISP have to be stable and
reliable. You might be looking at a
NS100 per location for better performance and as a good hardware firewall solution. You can NAT with the Netscreens
which is great for safety. When
setting up the VPNs for the locations you might want
to use a weaker Encryption for better performance. We had to do that to get one of our
remote sites to stop timing out with the Citrix Terminal for our GEAC System. If you need any help just email and I'll
give you a hand.
Good Luck
Roger Ali
-----Original Message-----
From: Neumann, Dagmar
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Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001
9:01 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VPN's
Thanks for all those
replies. Am more worried now then I was before ..... ;-))
Why? Will try to be more
specific: We have locally about 200 users, national (Australia) offices with
between 3 to 30 users and some overseas locations (China, UK, NZ)with up to 30
users. We intend to run intranet access, e-mail and most importantly Citrix
(ERP) over it. And, oh yes, Netscreen is definitely part of the deal.
Tailcircuits will be probably either 128K or 256K.
Reading your messages it
sounds like VPN's, yeah great, but only for a really small setup and not
necessarily that reliable. Or did I misinterpret???
Regards,
Dagmar Neumann
IT Operations
Manager
phone:
(02) 9690 7578
mobile: 0402 223
011
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message-----
From: Miley, Dan
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Sent: Tuesday, 18 September 2001
12:13 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VPN's
just remember the
internet is a "best effort" medium.
you cannot get a comitted
rate from the internet. as we've seen this week, the internet provides
functionality for some (most of the time), but guaranteed? not
quite. just look at CNN
We like the Cisco
3000. Works pretty well.
how's that for a
general answer to a general question.
-----Original Message-----
From: SysAdm
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Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001
1:44 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VPN's
Very general question. My company is
interested in changing from Frame Relay to VPN. It looks very interesting to
us, especially since you can save quite a bit of money with it, but ....
Who has made experiences with VPN's,
good ones or bad ones. What about security, bandwidth, reliability etc. Am
interested in any information.
Regards,
Dagmar Neumann
IT Operations
Manager
phone: (02) 9690 7578
mobile: 0402 223
011
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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