Hello guys, need a little advice on setting up a VPN site to site. I'll be up front my knowledge of VPN is not great, but I have managed to setup several passthrough connections in the past. I've recently bought two Safecom, which advertise 40 hardware VPN tunnels. My first question is do I need to setup a workstation or server with VPN software? I presumed that one router would establish the connection, whilst the other received. What I can’t understand is what aspect of the router initiates the connection, if it even does? Any light you can shed upon such a subject will help greatly. What I would like is network access from either end.

Sorry in my rush I didn't type the name of the router. Its a Safecom SWAMRU-54108. Link to details: http://www.qtds.com/code/products.asp?recid=677 VPN support: 40 hardware tunnels VPN support: The pass through of PPTP, L2TP, and IPSec.

First of all , I would setup network to network IPSEC triple DES connection, any router that supports IPSEC you can use. Cisco, Linksys etc... it a GRE tunnel that is encrypted, both sides listen and recieve at the same time, it's like a PPP coneection.