I want to link a site of a customer to their head office where they have Small Business Server 2003 installed. I have set the server to allow VPN connections, and a couple of laptops access this as a dial-up connection when the users are off-site.
If new hardware is required it's not a problem although it will be Drayteks at the most, no Cisco stuff. The head office has a Netgear DG834 giving Internet to the server - DHCP is disabled, it only does port forwarding. The remote office has a BT Business hub thing just provided by BT, does a lot of stuff but no VPN's from what I can see; all it has is public network bridging if this is any use? Would I need to change the BT device for a start?
The DG834 has VPN support. I'm considering changing it to a Draytek anyway, for stability. Is it better for the routers to talk to each other through their own VPN capabilities, or for one router to dial and have the head office router forwarding port 1723 to the server and let the server do the work?
If new hardware is required it's not a problem although it will be Drayteks at the most, no Cisco stuff. The head office has a Netgear DG834 giving Internet to the server - DHCP is disabled, it only does port forwarding. The remote office has a BT Business hub thing just provided by BT, does a lot of stuff but no VPN's from what I can see; all it has is public network bridging if this is any use? Would I need to change the BT device for a start?
The DG834 has VPN support. I'm considering changing it to a Draytek anyway, for stability. Is it better for the routers to talk to each other through their own VPN capabilities, or for one router to dial and have the head office router forwarding port 1723 to the server and let the server do the work?