pixelbend

Our company just hired an outside sales rep. I need to setup a VPN for him to be able to access our network and our manufacturing system. Does anyone know where I should begin?

I have a 5Mbit cable connection and a Windows 2000 Server box to connect to.

ccan someone point me in the right direction?

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Cynthetiq

areyou the IT guy? if not.. pass it to them and let them deal with the headache...

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pixelbend

I am the IT guy, I've just never had to set one of these up before and I thought someone here might be able to give me a little help while I am doing my own research.

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Cynthetiq

make sure your router support VPN access some of the older ones do not do it out of the box and you'll have to open ports instead of click a button.

http://www.pctechnicians.ca/help/VPN.html

http://labmice.techtarget.com/networking/vpn.htm

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pixelbend

Thanks Cyn!

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bendsley

what are you using for a router? are you going to have more sales people in the future that are outside of the office? if so, you might look at a pix 501 or similar. let me know how large your company is, how many machines, etc.

where I work, i have a Cisco Integrated Service Router, 3000 series, and a 3005-VPN Concentrator. A little high end for what we use, but I'm very protective of the internal network.

As a rule, you want the VPN device at the edge of your network. You do not want a production server acting as a VPN server!!!

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