Setting up a VPN from start to finish

[andrewcurren]

I'm trying to setup 2 remote sites basically one at home and one at my office.

I have XP Pro at home and Win2K Pro at the office, I have bought 2x Dlink DI-804HV VPN Routers and 2x Dlink DSL-504 ADSL routers. Can anyone help me in anyway how to setup these 2 sites using VPN? Any help would be very appreciated...

 

[crabjoe]

I'm not sure if this pertains to your specific Dlink VPN box (I would think it holds true to the 804 also, can't say), but when I was looking for a VPN solution, Dlink told me I couldn't use their VPN 824VUP routers as endpoints.

Their sales and technical depts both told me that their VPN routers are to be only used as clients. Because of this, I went with Netgear.

Never made sense to me why it wouldn't work as they advertise that it can make multiple VPN connections and the way te product spec reads, it should work.

Give them a call and ask them is your model will work as VPN endpoints, if so, your in luck, if not, you'll need to get something else.

BTW, when I asked about using the 824 as endpoints, there was a guy on another messageboard that told me it could be done but was really complicated as it was not designed for such.