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Connect to our Intranet?

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PabloCa

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Feb 21, 2000
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I have IIS running in house as an Intranet. We have a DSL line that uses DHCP and NAT. I would like to provide access to our sales and service to our Intranet, while they are on the road. Is there a way to provide them secure access? Our internal IP address are 192.168.XXX.XXX (non-routable). Can anyone direct me to the right book or site?
 
Yeah.&nbsp;&nbsp;Your DSL router's reference material.&nbsp;&nbsp;Or enlist the help of your ISP's support staff.<br><br>Your DSL router is a probably DHCP server.&nbsp;&nbsp;It may also get a dynamic or static address for the outside, in your ISP's address range.&nbsp;&nbsp;Even if dynamically assigned, it may be consistant.&nbsp;&nbsp;If it is static or virtually static, this is easy.<br><br>Your DSL router should be capable of Port Address Translation (PAT) to map a port on the Internet IP address side of your router to a port on an internal.<br><br>It may also provide &quot;local servers.&quot;<br><br>Either way, it seems as if the router itself provides whatever service you set up.<br><br>The catch is that if you router is a DHCP client, and gets a different address for each request, you have to have someone available to look up the router's address from the inside when someone wants to connect.<br><br>If it is &quot;static,&quot; you can provide instructions to modify the appropriate file on each workstation (maybe they have a MAC at home, so it'd be different than Windows) to resolve&nbsp;&nbsp;intranet.yourcompany.yoursuffix!<br>
 
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