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bobn
Member since:
2003-04-06 14:03:12 |  posted: 2003-04-07 01:09:29
Linking two wireless
networks via VPN
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Hello,
We have two
offices - miles apart -
each with wireless LANs
and
broadband access
(one cable, one DSL),
both with static public
IP addresses.
The
LANs are currently ad hoc
peer-to-peer, so there is
no router, hub
or
switch involved - we use
a software
proxy.
We want to
link the two together
with a VPN so that every
machine can
see every
other machine and printer
- and want to lose the
proxy.
It would
seem that if we upgrade
the LANs to connect via a
Wireless
Access Point
(say a Linksys WAP11 or a
WAP54G), and then insert
a VPN
Router into the
LAN (say a Linksys
BEFVP41) it should work
'out of
the
box'.
Howev
er, nothing is ever that
easy - so:
Are we
doing this the right
way?
Has anyone
ever done this
successfully? What
hardware did you
use?
Is there a
single box that will do
both the WAP and the
VPN?
How do you
configure the network so
it is transparent at both
ends?
I don't want
to shoot $500 and a
life-time of configuring
down the
pan, to
discover afterwards that
I should have bought X or
done Y.
Been there and
done that too many times
.
Any help
or suggestions is
appreciated: thanks in
advance.
Bob
| k10
Member since:
2003-08-21 15:11:17 | posted: 2003-08-21 16:00:23
Any luck
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Did you find a solution
to this, if not let me
know and I may be able to
help. | bob_n
Member since:
2003-08-22 01:22:55 | posted: 2003-08-22 01:35:18
No luck yet
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No, we never figured it
out - any help much
appreciated. |
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