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Win2K, VPN, and Router

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by hereinoz

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Hi all,

We have a Peer to Peer LAN running Win2k Pro on each machine connected to the Internet (ADSL) via a Router that is supposed to be VPN enabled. When I attempt to set up a VPN Server on one of the machines, the only devices it shows me arethe modem and LPT1.

Before I even tackle the Router aspects of the VPN, I need to set up a VPN server that will accept connections via the LAN (don't I??).

I must be missing something here, perhaps in the configuration of the NIC, or do I need Win2K Server to do this? The support people from the ISP and the Router company have been next to useless, so I return to the place of greatest wisdom.

Can anyone assist?

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by joerie_b

What you need is two NIC one is for your internet connection and the other one is for your LAN connection. so that you can share your internet connection to the LAN buy using internal IP address ex..192.168.X.X.if you can have a Win2k server it's better. but theirs also software like wingate..

by wim

I don't know if you want to invest in a new router, but for LAN2LAN we use Draytek Vigor Routers, they have VPN server build-in + adsl modem build-in. You just need these 2 routers on each lan and they connect and communicate automaticly. And they are not that expensive.
check => www.draytek.com
Try it, you'll like it...

by hereinoz

I am afraid that we have to work with what we have, which is a LAN at one end with a router to an ADSL connection, and a pc with dial up at the other.

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