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by dcg_69

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i have a main office with high speed internet. i have a static ip there and am running a gnet internet gateway model ip0006. from gvc networking. at my location i will have the static ip high speed. i have a d-link dsl gateway modle # di-704.i want to set it up so that i can connect the two offices. the software that we use is tcp/ip based. there are 3 computers at the remote office that must connect to the server at the main office.
i do not understand as to how to make the two routers comunitcate with each other for the vpn.

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by mshavrov

There are a few ways to do that.

1. You are getting VPN routers. Pay attention, that for LAN-2-LAN solution it should be not "VPN-capable" routers, but "VPN routers". Difference is that VPN routers can terminate VPN tunnel on themself, when VPN-capable routers just "aware" about VPN flow and can bypass VPN traffic. I think LinkSys has model, which allow you to build VPN tunnels between routers, but you should check if it's able to handle multiple tunnels simultaneously (if you are going to interconnect more than two offices).

2. You install dedicated servers in both (or more) locations behind router, install VPN software (like Windows2000 server :-) or Firewall/VPN software (many of Firewall servers are able to build VPN tunnels) and configure them to build tunnel to each other. Then you may either configure IP routing on all your PCs, that "RemoteLAN" is available through VPN Server, or even connect all PCs to be behind firewall (install 2 NICs into your Firewall/VPN server, and connect one NIC to router, and another to LAN).

Good luck.

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