VPN Help required.

[Barera111]

Hello, I run a charitable organisation for handicapped children and I am trying to save money (yes we have been affected by the credit crunch!!) so I have installed some time machines in the houses of 3 of our employees so we can track their working hours accurately.

Each of these machines has a network port that can be connected to a network in order to be able to access the data on the machine.

None of the workers have computers. We have installed broadband at each location with a static IP and with a VPN capable router(Draytek 2600) connected to the machines via patch cords.

What do I need to do in order to access each machine from my office? do I also need a VPN capable router?
What do I need to enter into the configuration settings?
Any assistance would be gratefully appreciated.

 

[jimbopalmer]

Assuming you HAVE a working time machine, let alone 3 of them, the rest of this is trivial.

But again, assuming what you actually have are time clocks, and you want to network them to your home office, You can easily do this with a LAN to LAN IPSEC VPN tunnel.

ftp://ftp.draytek.com/Vigor2600/Manual/ then choose DOCUMENTS.zip and read the VPN manual.

Remain focused on wanting a LAN to LAN IPSEC VPN tunnel, the manual will discuss many flavors of VPN.

Page 12, part 6 is an example you should start to fill in your data on Local and remote IP Addresses. You may need to take a Laptop to each remote site to get the IP Address of that site. If

http://whatismyip.com/

was your home page on the laptop, this would be simple.

Find unused subnets to give to the three remote sites, if your company is not currently using 192.168.101.x 192.168.102.x and 192.168.103.x that would be fine.

Pick three preshared keys, one for each tunnel. then use the laptop to program the 4 Draytek 2600 routers (apparently last made in 2004)

Feel free to ask more, as you try this!


I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.

 

[Barera111]

many thanks for your reply.
am I correct in assuming that I need a vpn capable router at my office too?
Also, do I have to have a static ip at my end? At the moment there is only a dynamic ip at my end!
Thanks again.
Joe

 

[jimbopalmer]

You would need a VPN router at each end.
It is easier with static IPs, but if you Dynamic IPs do not change often you can cope.

I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.

 

[dberg35]

Look at the Netgear FVS318 Router it is not expensive and you could use their client at the users home pc.