Make life easier on everyone and get the static IP for both VPN ends. This is only an increase of about $16 per month.
It eliminates the problems commonly seen with PPoE (intermittent loss of VPN) and reduces the amount time needed to maintain the environment over time. Remember, with PPoE, you rotate through IP addresses and that will directly impact your VPN connection. I have seen this happen at the most inopportune times - like during a 100Mb upload. It simply makes good business sense. If "higher ups" are saying to use PPoE point out that: 1. there are greater operational costs involved (man hours to manage) 2. less stable bandwidth 3. less support (outages take longer to resolve) 4. routine loss of VPN when IP rotates 5. it is far more complicated to troubleshoot because PPoE support is terrible and without a static address to fire at, you don't have a solid way of testing each hop for a point of failure. Danny -----Original Message----- From: Joseph C. Bender [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 6:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gb-users] GBFlash to RoBoX VPN via Linksys > We want to setup a GBFlash to RoBoX VPN with an office using Bellsouth's > DSL. The line is routed with a Linksys BEFW11S4. I plan to get a > static IP for linksys and forward all the appropriate ports to the > RoBox. > > Has anyone tried this with a linksys? *snip* > Mike, This is a REALLY dumb question, but is there a good reason you can't put the RoBoX first, then hang the Router/AP behind it, just using it as a AP? This would solve your problem pretty quickly, I'd think. Joseph C. Bender IT Systems Analyst jcbender () burns-wilcox com ------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
