Remote XP pro to SBS 2003 via VPN question

[MarkB2]

I have a remote office wich currently has one XP Pro machine (soon to be 3). At the main office I have a server running Windows SBS 2003 with ISA. Both locations have a braodband connection to the internet. I would like to connect the remote site to the main office as though we had a long cat5 cable run. I have never done anything like this and need some direction.

I was looking into a pair of Linksys/Cisco VPN routers. Is this a good way to go?

Is there an alternate way to do this that I am overlooking?

I wish the remote users to log into the server so we can establish user rights for the resources at the main office as though they were hooked into the main office switch.

TIA for any suggestions.
Mark

 

[pmf71]

Don't know where you are located, but here in holland i attended a NETASQ Seminar. NETASQ is a french company specialised, like cisco, in secure internet connectivity. They have VPN boxes specifically designed for this function. It creates a single vpn tunnel between the two boxes, and allows no other traffic. Even internet has to be accessed throught the main office, in other words, both corporate and internet traffic is rerouted through the vpn tunnel.
And it's extremely safe.
I am sure other brands like cisco have these kinds of solutions, but netasq has a very good price/performance/quality ratio.

 

[MarkB2]

Here in the US we have a number of appliance vendors as well but based on price they seem to be looking at enterprise solutions with a need for many VPN tunnels.

I was thinking that I may be able to accomplish the same thing using the relatively cheap Cisco/Linksys VPN routers since I have a need for only 1 tunnel currently. The Linksys BEFVP41 allows for 70 tunnels and the BEFSX41 allows 2 tunnels.

I was looking for some wisdom as to if this is a good way to go?

Also Has anyone done what I am proposing in a production environment and if so, was the reliability, functionality and performance acceptable?

TIA
Mark

 

[macfoxx]

Hi MarkB2
You can use Cisco two Pix 501 firewall to conect to sites
or one Pix 501 and software cisco vpn client. I set up several clients on this solution and it's works great.Pix establish VPN i DES or 3DES with IPSec or L2TP