Remote IP Sets on BCM 50e 2.0 or BCM 400 4.0

[mjr0721]

I would like to add IP sets in multiple remote locations either off a BCM 50 2.0 or a BCM 400 4.0. I see there is a limit of 32 IP sets on the BCM 50 and 89 Sets on the BCM 400. I would obviously need a client seat for each IP set. I am confused about the IPsec clients. My goal would be to have 2 small remote offices of 4 IP phones and 1 user work from home, likely I2004's, installed off the BCM 50/BCM 400. Do I need a tunnel for each set or is it a tunnel for each location? As I go forward is there a limit to the number IPsec tunnels the BCM 50 or BCM 400 will support? Do you have a recommendation on cost effective routers and switches for the host and remote sites? Have you done this with the BCM 50e/BCM 400 serving as the only router as the host?
Thanks,
Mike

 

[MagnaRGP]

I would use a VPN router 10X0 at the main site as your VPN router.

At the remote site with any hard IP set, use a BSR222 and set up branch tunnels into the main router.

Simple and cost effective and provides full LAN access at each site if configured properly. I don't recommend using the BCM as the VPN gateway.

 

[gwebster]

If you want to have an IP Phone at one remote site (using one tunnel) talk to another IP Phone at another remote site (using a different tunnel), then you will need to enable tunnel-to-tunnel routing. If you do not do that, then the IP Phones will be able to call each other (ringing,..) but no speech path.