Here's the deal: the boss of a friend of mine wants me to come over and set up a wireless network in his home office as he doesn't have a LAN (gasp). He's getting a laptop soon and wants to be able to roam around the house and still access his broadband cable connection.
'Tis a pretty simple setup - slap a NAT router+access point behind the cable modem, turn on WEP/WPA and go. However, he also wants to be able to VPN into the network while on the road and access his home PC.
I've never set up a VPN before, but I think this is a pretty easy case. I know that WinXP has much better VPN support than previous versions (i.e. Win9x). So, I assume that I just need to set up the home PC to allow "incoming connections" and set up a profile on the laptop to connect (via dialup or static IP/static hostname) to the home PC.
My main question is this: I'd probably get a Linksys router for the NAT/access point part, but is there any advantage to getting something like this, which has some type of "built-in" VPN capability, over something like this or this which only say they support "VPN passthrough"? In the case of using one of the latter two routers, do any ports need to be forwarded to the home PC in order to make the VPN connection work, or is it simply a matter of enabling the "IPSec Passthrough" feature in the web configuration page(s)?
'Tis a pretty simple setup - slap a NAT router+access point behind the cable modem, turn on WEP/WPA and go. However, he also wants to be able to VPN into the network while on the road and access his home PC.
I've never set up a VPN before, but I think this is a pretty easy case. I know that WinXP has much better VPN support than previous versions (i.e. Win9x). So, I assume that I just need to set up the home PC to allow "incoming connections" and set up a profile on the laptop to connect (via dialup or static IP/static hostname) to the home PC.
My main question is this: I'd probably get a Linksys router for the NAT/access point part, but is there any advantage to getting something like this, which has some type of "built-in" VPN capability, over something like this or this which only say they support "VPN passthrough"? In the case of using one of the latter two routers, do any ports need to be forwarded to the home PC in order to make the VPN connection work, or is it simply a matter of enabling the "IPSec Passthrough" feature in the web configuration page(s)?
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