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Basics of a VPN
Name: chrislower Date: June 25, 2007 at 07:47:52 Pacific OS: WInXPPro CPU/Ram: Intel Core Duo/1GB Product: Dell
Comment:
I would like to obtain a VPN connection to my office's network. What all is involved in this? Is that done through the ISP? If so how?
Name: XpUser Date: June 25, 2007 at 08:01:00 Pacific
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Have you googled? You could have gotten the info you are looking FASTER than the time it took you to post this thread then wait for one of us to pop in ...
Name: jefro Date: June 25, 2007 at 18:14:55 Pacific
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See also OpenVPN and barracudaserver.
I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.
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Response Number 3
Name: haroldw Date: June 26, 2007 at 08:03:59 Pacific
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Chris:
It only goes through your isp in that your home computer is using your isp to connect to the Internet.
Does your business currently have a VPN server up and running? Also, there are two major VPN schemas (may be using the the wrong word.) One Is where you have two servers (end points) that you run a VPN ipsec tunnel server-to-server and the second one I believe is called pptp. This is like having a VPN client installed on your workstation at home and connecting to and logging in to a VPN server at work with an individual account.
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