> Or have a central site somewhere with a static ip addres
Sure that works too, I was just suggesting something that avoided the
need for a third party. As they don't own any realworld ip addresses
themselves they have to have someone else provide this service which
they may not be comfortable with.
I was figuring on a central office with an Adsl connection. The server
at each remote location dials the central office asks the server for
it's current adsl ip, and then establishes it's own adsl connection and
subsequent VPN to head office. If head office looses the adsl, then the
remote office can dial-up and ask for the new ip, if the adsl is down
then return ip=0, remote server waits say 1 minute and asks again,
(insert other error handling logic etc etc here).
Of course this assumes that the IP address being assigned for ADSL are
real-world and not private with a Nat on outbound traffic (which is
often the case for dial-up connections).
Hmm interesting, I can think of someone who might be able to use this...
Pete
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