Suggestions for colocation setup

[unclerico]

The company that I work for is closing down at the end of the month and it has been requested that we move some of our critical servers to a colocation center so that some of the execs can work from one person's house (there will be 5 or XP clients and a printer at this location). I've never dealt with a situation such as this and I am wondering if anyone else has. I was thinking about placing two Windows 2003 machines with RRAS installed on either side of the wire and creating a site-to-site VPN but I'm unsure of the consequences of this. Unfortunately there is very little money to spend on this configuration so I can purchase very little if anything to get this up and running. I'm sure that I left plenty of details out, but again I'm not 100% sure what I should do here. Thanks in advance for any help

 

[mrdenny]

Two machines running RRAS should work fine. LinkSys offers some routers which have site to site built in. They are a couple of hundred dollars each, and support IPSec VPN connections between them.

Denny
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