Hello I have been working in the networking field for now almost a year... I don't have that much experienced in VPN though, I have three work places which I would like to access via VPN or remotely.. I have DLS at those three places with dynamic IPs... I have setup Dynamic DNS and I am able to remote into the server on each work place, but I have not been able to get VPN to work... Do a need a router that supports VPN??? I have a wireless linksys router WRT54G at all the places... Can I do the VPN connection with the hardware that I have or do I need to buy like a Cisco 800 series or a linksys that support VPN... Please advice, Thanks
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Hey,
You will have to buy a router that supports VPN for each of the sites you want to access. It would be cheaper and faster to use a service like logmein.com or gotomypc.com, but you do give a third party control of your connection. If that is not an issue, then that is the way I would go. VPN is hard to configure and I've always spent way more time and effort than I wanted to set them up. Or maybe the VPN gods just hate me.
You will have to buy a router that supports VPN for each of the sites you want to access. It would be cheaper and faster to use a service like logmein.com or gotomypc.com, but you do give a third party control of your connection. If that is not an issue, then that is the way I would go. VPN is hard to configure and I've always spent way more time and effort than I wanted to set them up. Or maybe the VPN gods just hate me.
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I would get any Cisco router with IP Plus Firewall, like maybe an 837.
VPN's are not that difficult to set up, but I would recommend that you understand things like the different kinds of VPN's, what tunneling is, IKE phase one and two, how routers exchange keys, DES and 3DES encryption, etc. In a Cisco router, one could use a GUI based tool called SDM, or Security Device Manager, to set up whatever you want, and it is very user friendly.
Burt
VPN's are not that difficult to set up, but I would recommend that you understand things like the different kinds of VPN's, what tunneling is, IKE phase one and two, how routers exchange keys, DES and 3DES encryption, etc. In a Cisco router, one could use a GUI based tool called SDM, or Security Device Manager, to set up whatever you want, and it is very user friendly.
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