Hi Folks, If anybody is so inclined, I'm looking for recommendations for a VPN enabled router that handles out-bound tunneling (not pass-thru).
I don't profess to be a network person, so I'll explain the best I can, so warning - I'm sure this post will be wordy :-b.... I have a particular customer whom I've been doing periodic contract work for over 6 years. With them I have to use VPN client software to connect to their network when I deploy something or need to work on their servers. With their particular type of VPN connection, once I do the VPN logon my workstation becomes a part of their network, which inherits a new IP from their internal LAN. Once I'm connected my workstation is unable to connect to my own local network. Which is highly inconvenient of course, but I can deal with that for the most part by running the VPN inside a virtual machine. If I did all my development work on one machine I wouldn't have a problem. But my setup these days includes the following: ~ A heavy-duty desktop running WinXP for the Visual Studio IDE. ~ 6 Virtual Machines for browser testing (running on the desktop, which are separate machines as far as VPN is concerned). ~ A Mac Mini for more browser testing. ~ Another workstation with Visual Studio for my coding buddy Mark, who also works in my office, he's not a witango guy ;-) ~ And a dedicated Windows 2003 Server for hosting all our code and SQL 2000 & 2005 databases. ~ Oh, and a 1TB Network Attached Storage device that I use for backups. I also have 3 other computers on my local network, but those aren't used for work. Anyway, since starting a recent job with this particular customer things are getting more involved where we need a dedicated VPN connection from both our workstations and now from the server (which is going to run an automated database sync routine we're going to build). So, is there a router that can handle all VPN (client?) connections to my customer's external network? Including the following features? ~ Automatic transparent VPN connections from any of my local machines. ~ Still allow connections to my other network resources? ~ Still allow inbound access to my webserver and Remote Desktop (port forwarding from the outside). ~ And still allow out-bound connections to other non-customer external addresses (the internet). Note, my internet service includes 5 static IP addresses, if that makes a difference. So, any ideas? Thank you for taking the time to read this. Scott, ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
