How to get a remote site onto my network?

[Oyeve]

I have been tasked with getting a remote site connected to my win2003 servers at work. What would be the quickest, cheapest, easiest way? the remote site has internet but I do not want to use RD or logmein or anything like that. They basically need F&P and access to our network drives. They do not have any servers, just pcs to the net.

 

[gsaldivar]

You have to pick two of those three categories first:

1. Quick
2. Cheap
3. Easy

 

[Phynaz]

4. Good

 

[drebo]

Get two Juniper SRX100Bs and configure them with an IPSec tunnel between.

Cost: ~$1100 + labor
Time: should take an experienced person less than 2 hours

It'll operate as fast as your network connections and behave as though the two networks are one.

Or, if you want to go even cheaper, two Cisco 2621XM routers used on ebay. Timeframe will be the same, but the cost of hardware will be a lot less. You won't be able to break 10mbps IPSec throughput going this route, but that should be adequate for most Internet connections. My recommendation would be the Junipers.

Or, if you want Layer 2 adjacency, as if the systems were physically connected to the same LAN, two Juniper SRX100Bs configured with CCCoMPLSoGREoIPSec. You'll get about 10mbps throughput on them, but you'll have true L2 adjacency across the wire. This would take a very experienced network engineer to put together and would take roughly the same amount of time as a regular IPsec tunnel and hardware costs would be the same.

 

[Oyeve]

You have to pick two of those three categories first:

1. Quick
2. Cheap
3. Easy

1. and 3.

 

[hawk82]

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9925/index.html
or
http://www.cisco.com/cisco/web/solu...switches/500_series_secure_routers/index.html

Or higher end unit if you need more features, scability, etc.

 

[Oyeve]

Yeah, I'm thinking vpn tunnels.

 

[drebo]

Yeah, I'm thinking vpn tunnels.

I'd seriously recommend the Juniper SRX over the Cisco (rebadged Linksys) small business stuff. Especially those SA500s...those are garbage.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

I prefer the ASA5505, can be had for around $500 each with a 50 user license.

 

[drebo]

SRX100B is around $500 with unlimited users and more features.