VPNs Again!

dl763 · 11 May 2009 at 15:03

Hi All,

Thanks for your help last time. Now heres my current problem.

Got a client with 3 sites who wants a VPN setting up between their offices in the I-O-W, Southampton, and Sweden.

They want a VPN link for phones in Sweden and those in Southampton. Apparently they are using Linksys routers.

Anyone got any experience with VPN'ing with sites in Sweden?

Don't you just love mopping up after people?

MTIA

Jon

Phal · 11 May 2009 at 15:11

Sweden

iaind · 11 May 2009 at 15:12

I imagine it'll be the same as setting up a VPN in the UK

dl763 · 11 May 2009 at 15:14

Phal said:
Sweden

Ok you got me!

Apparently "in Sweden they seem to do things a bit differently, there are no VPI, VCI, PPOA etc,

The line is just bridged from the Telco, (it's a new one on me to) there arent even any usernames or passwords."

This is coming from the guy we're setting it up for...

Jon

madman045 · 11 May 2009 at 15:30

A VPN tunnel if thats what you are after will be done via IP address usually, so on both of your routers, you choose the same type of VPN tunnel (if it's going to be a constant connection), point it at each others IP address along with the security credentials and away you go (this is a very crude description of what you will need to do)

We use Draytek 2820 routers for our clients to make setup a lot easier at both ends

oddjob62 · 11 May 2009 at 15:40

dl763 said:
Ok you got me!

Apparently "in Sweden they seem to do things a bit differently, there are no VPI, VCI, PPOA etc,

The line is just bridged from the Telco, (it's a new one on me to) there arent even any usernames or passwords."

This is coming from the guy we're setting it up for...

Jon

But the VPN end points will be the routers. It shouldn't matter what happens in between (as long as VPN traffic isn't blocked)

dl763 · 12 May 2009 at 09:47

Okie dokie, thanks guys!

Jon

philjohn · 14 May 2009 at 20:07

We use Draytek routers to support VPN and VOIP between 5 offices in the UK and Romania and they work very well indeed - the VPN stuff is a breeze with them.

sparkey196 · 14 May 2009 at 21:49

Normally Site to Site VPNs are IPSEC which is an open standard supported by most SOHO firewalls. If you cannot afford (or do not wish to buy) new firewalls with IPSEC support, you can use Pfsense which is an open source firewall solution which supports IPSEC as well as OpenVPN.

You dont need to worry about the lack of PPPoA in .se as IPSEC/OpenVPN are higher level abstractions (OSI Layer 3). All the lower level stuff is completely transparent