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Windows Server Forum / Small Business Server / SBS 2000 / December 2003VPN to SBS box (Urgent)
I have the following situation Office SBS2k Server + ISA on DSL (configured to act as VPN server Remote location 1 (or more in the future) workstations on DSL which I want to VPN to the serve I would like to use a VPN capable router to establish the VPN connection as a client to the server (so the workstations don't have to do VPN directly). Can somebody give me a recomendation on a (preferably cheap) router for that purpose Thanks! unless you are also planning to setup a router at the server end for router to router vpn, I'm not sure there is much benefit. And do I understand correctly you need one router to handle potentially several vpn connections?? These are not cheep  SignatureCris Hanna [SBS-MVP] ------------------------- Please do not directly to me but rather reply to the newsgroup so that all may benefit from the information. > I have the following situation: > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > I would like to use a VPN capable router to establish the VPN connection as a client to the server (so the workstations don't have to do VPN directly). Can somebody give me a recomendation on a (preferably cheap) router for that purpose? > Thanks! What you are looking for is not uncommon. Linksys and many others make routers to do this. The key point you need to look for is that you want a router that is capable of being a VPN Client for either IPSEC or PPTP tunnel to a Windows Server. Linksys routers are reputed to be much easier to configure as the tunnel endpoints at both ends rather than as a client to a Windows Server, but they can do either way. > I have the following situation: > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > I would like to use a VPN capable router to establish the VPN connection as a client to the server (so the workstations don't have to do VPN directly). Can somebody give me a recomendation on a (preferably cheap) router for that purpose? > Thanks! The Linksys BEFSX41 doesn't support PPTP as an endpoint. It also won't establish a usable IPSEC connection to ISA Server, although it would probably be great at an SBS 2003 Standard location with another BEFSX41 as the firewall. SMC makes a VPN endpoint router that supports both IPSEC and PPTP. I think I made a PPTP connection with the SMC to an SBS 2000 but that was a while ago and I need to give that another shot. The downside of the SMC is that the remote management port is fixed at 8080, which many ISP's have blocked. The Linksys lets you change it to 9000 or something else that's clear. I'd love to find an inexpensive router that will establish an IPSEC connection to an SBS 2000/SBS 2003 Premium-- it makes things a lot more transparent to the user than DUN VPN. > What you are looking for is not uncommon. Linksys and many others make > routers to do this. The key point you need to look for is that you want a [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > > > Thanks! |
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