VPN Solution

[FinnMan]

First Pardon the newbieness.

I manage a small Dallas based office and need to share database connectivity to a DC office. The Database currently resides in our Lan behind the firewall & Cisco router with a few boxes in our DMZ.

What would be an appropriate setup in this situation?

Would running PPTP from Dallas to DC cut off our Lan users?

Thx in advance,
FM

 

[sobak]

FM,

I'm in Dallas as well, I have offices in NYC, MIA and three here in the DF/W area. I use Cisco routers between all of my offices setup for a GRE VPN Tunnel. One VPN in particular is one down to Houston that office does not belong to us; we are working on a project with another firm. I coordinated with their IT guy and together we setup a VPN using the two Cisco routers.

Now your particular situation I really don't know about, is the office in DC your office or another company? Are they running a Cisco router at their end? What is their pipe to the Internet like (T1, SDSL, ADSL)? Do you have access to the DC router? And the $100,000 question of the day, how often does DC access the database?

All of this will determine how you're going to setup your VPN. If they only need to access it very few times to gather information then I would put up a standard PPTP from DC to Dallas, if they are going to be in the Database all the time then I would do a dedicated VPN between offices. Just really depends on what direction you want to take this and how convenient you want it to be for your users.
david e
*end users are just like computers, some you can work with...others just need a simple reBOOTing to fix their problems.*

 

[FinnMan]

The DC office is our office. Unfortunately, they are on a 128 dedicated dial up all sitting behind a netopia router. On our end, We have a Sonicwall DMZ and a Cisco 1700. I'd love to throw another cisco in the picture for the DC office but (as usual) cost is an issue.

The Database resides on a linux box in our Lan and would need to be accessed sporadically.

A standard PPTP seems to fit the picture. Would this pass through the Sonciwall?