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home office VPN?

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groovin

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someone i know has a home office she works out of. her associates work out of their homes as well. their file server and most network resources are in her home office though. they want to connect all of their home offices into the same network (VPN).

ive set up VPNs using enterprise level gear as well as open source ones but never something for a SOHO environment. the enterprise stuff is way out of their budget and without constant IT supervision i think using a *nix router would be a bad idea.

any suggestions for a cheaper SOHO vpn appliance (linksys? dlink?)??

id prefer IPsec over PPTP.

thanks
 
How cheap? We use 2 DFL-300s to connect our two offices and that works great. They are about $300 a piece though. I've never used the DFL-80 (around $180 each) but it looks like it should work.
 
groovin, BEFVP41. User interface and flexibility are lacking, but the things work, and they're cheap, and they're IPsec.
 
Thats what my friends and I use. We started it back when alot of online games still had crappy internet support/coding. Made actually detecting the games alot easier. I don't know alot about how VPN's are supposed to work, but one guy "hosts" (I don't know what its really called) and the rest of our routers connect to his. The problem is, the "satellite" routers can all access the "host", but one satellite can't access the other satellite like a true network. Is something wrong or is that the way VPN's work?
 
basalt, its just a problem in your routing. when i set up my companys VPN gateways i had a similar problem but then i just rolled up my sleeves and fixed the routing tables and now everything works. i dont know if that was a possibility in your case however.
 
Originally posted by: groovin
basalt, its just a problem in your routing. when i set up my companys VPN gateways i had a similar problem but then i just rolled up my sleeves and fixed the routing tables and now everything works. i dont know if that was a possibility in your case however.
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Thanks Groovin. Any suggestions where I can find more info on that?

Here is a link to the wireless VPN router:

WRV54G
 
anything that explains routing in general would probaly help. i refered to some cisco books on the subject. i havent worked with to many of these SOHO vpn appliances so i dont know if they allow you to mess with routing tables too much. it might be easier to make a vpn mesh, where you have a hardware vpn device at each location , each device connecting to all the other devices... performance wouild be better as well.
 
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