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Pre Setting up a VPN(Faking it for)

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Name: Kury
Date: August 29, 2003 at 21:08:48 Pacific
Subject: Pre Setting up a VPN(Faking it for)
OS: Win2000
CPU/Ram: 2.4xeon/1gig
Comment:

Pre Setting up a VPN (faking it for test
purposes)????

OK Here is the deal my work is planning on
setting up a VPN in the semi near future
but the boss wants all the computers and
stuff up and going before they're even in
place. Our two offices will be connected
with a T1 internet connection on both ends
and we will be using identicle
hardware on both sides aswell. right now
office 1
has the T1 in place and we are only using
one of our 29 avalible IP's(using NAT) for
internet access for all the machines
located at office 1.

My question is: using another one of our 29
avalible external IP's how can I setup or
fake setting up our VPN tempararly so that
I can
get thing up and going like my boss
wants???

P.S.
Office 1's internal IP's are 192.168.1.###
does office 2 need to have internal IP's of
the form: 192.168.2.###??
and if that is the case what is my new
subnet mask (its currently
255.255.255.0)???

Please HELP!!!!! I have to get this done
soon....


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Response Number 1
Name: FredF
Date: August 29, 2003 at 22:32:48 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

Kury
Like to help you but I don't want to get dumped on if you don't like my answer as in your identical post at 12:30 today.

Sorry


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Response Number 2
Name: anonproxy
Date: August 30, 2003 at 00:03:29 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

"Thanks, that was virtualy worthless."

Wanderer has replied to your post, but in his usual meekness and diplomacy in such matters, through a third party (myself).

wanderer: "I am sorry my free advice has proven of no value to you in virtual terms. It seems I did read your post with my usual careful study and reflection, through which I usually grace all users. Please accept my humblest apologies for wasting your precious seconds on the Internet asking for help to perform your (perhaps now tentative) job."

Personally, I thought he let you off easy there.

Now, to solve your problem. Set up your border router with an external address. Set the other border router just the same. Enable the VPN and see if it works (do it late if you want, so you can fix it before the morning;). If you want, only allow one IP address on each network to use the tunnel (it should be in the options).

It would make your life easy if office2 had different private addresses. The subnet mask would be the same for both networks (in your example).

VPN does not mean everything on the network has to go through the VPN tunnel. The VPN tunnel is essentially a virtual direct route to another network (a bridge). If a packet wants to get there, it can take the tunnel. Also, resources can be shared securely, with a blanket of authentication.

But you can still do everything normally with a tunnel running.



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