Need some advice please.
I need to set up a vpn between my office and mobile users - 3G and home adsl - so that the bookeeper and directors can access billing software and pull reports remotely etc. The bandwidth requirements of the vpn are minimal.
The office is running on Iburst, which surprisingly has never given any issues, probably because we had a tower approx 500m away with LOS. The office LAN is windows xp, 1 "server" and 3 workstations, the VPN only needs to access the "server".
Currently the iburst connection is maintained by a d-link router which has vpn passthrough, but cannot terminate a vpn tunnel. It does dyndns so the dynamic IP "should" not be a problem.
I see 3 options.
1) Use XP's native vpn connection on the lan "server", using nat and vpn passthrough. How safe is this?
2) Upgrade the D-Link to a vpn router and terminate the tunnel on the router. Probably my prefered option but have no experience of vpn routers - can someone suggest what would be appropriate?
3) Set up a spare PC we have in the office to run IPCOP to act as a vpn router. Maybe the best option but again i have no experience of this - anyone with any pointers?
All you network gurus gimme your ideas.
Thanks Dave
I need to set up a vpn between my office and mobile users - 3G and home adsl - so that the bookeeper and directors can access billing software and pull reports remotely etc. The bandwidth requirements of the vpn are minimal.
The office is running on Iburst, which surprisingly has never given any issues, probably because we had a tower approx 500m away with LOS. The office LAN is windows xp, 1 "server" and 3 workstations, the VPN only needs to access the "server".
Currently the iburst connection is maintained by a d-link router which has vpn passthrough, but cannot terminate a vpn tunnel. It does dyndns so the dynamic IP "should" not be a problem.
I see 3 options.
1) Use XP's native vpn connection on the lan "server", using nat and vpn passthrough. How safe is this?
2) Upgrade the D-Link to a vpn router and terminate the tunnel on the router. Probably my prefered option but have no experience of vpn routers - can someone suggest what would be appropriate?
3) Set up a spare PC we have in the office to run IPCOP to act as a vpn router. Maybe the best option but again i have no experience of this - anyone with any pointers?
All you network gurus gimme your ideas.
Thanks Dave