Connecting two offices across the interwebnets

Fear · Post by **Fear** » July 10th, 2007, 13:22

OK, so a customer of mine needs two sites connecting to one another 'so they appear to be on the same network'. So I need a VPN tunnel over the interwebnets.

I am wondering if any of you fantastic 5punkers have had much experience with some hardware that will stand up and not be a PIT. I'm not too interested in software solutions as they are too easy for them to fuck up.

Ideally two little boxes that sit at each site and just do the magic would be nice.

Has anyone come across such a magical solution?

(Damn cheese and ham being on holiday - he'd have one)

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » July 10th, 2007, 13:35

Don't forget new cover sheets on TPS reports

kthxbye

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » July 10th, 2007, 13:54

I shall enquire about what we use at one of our sites which is set up in the same way to our Head Office

Post by **FatherJack** » July 10th, 2007, 14:11

BT do something. We bought a type of leased line from them to connect us to Walsgrave Hospital. Even does IPX, I think.

Fear · Post by **Fear** » July 10th, 2007, 14:16

Thanks guys.

So far the best my googling has got me is:

http://linksys.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/lin ... 2877456B10

Which looks like it could be the jobby. Shame the routers looks so fugly!

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » July 10th, 2007, 14:26

Fear wrote:Thanks guys.

No problem, glad I could help.

Fear · Post by **Fear** » July 10th, 2007, 14:33

OK, just had a chat with Linksys support and I've come away knowing this is possible with:

2x Linksys AG241 v2 ADSL/Routers

This is most win, and much simpler than I feared it would be.

Thanks again Spoodie for your help.

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » July 11th, 2007, 10:53

Cisco PIX 501
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/ ... index.html

Post by **FatherJack** » July 11th, 2007, 11:18

IIRC Linksys kit is just cheaper versions of Cisco kit.

friznit · Post by **friznit** » July 11th, 2007, 11:34

A gaming site that resolves the world's technological problems. Does anyone else see the irony here?

♥ 5punk

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » July 20th, 2007, 8:34

Fear wrote:(Damn cheese and ham being on holiday - he'd have one)

lmao... don't worry your pretty head Fear, I'm back now...

amblin · Post by **amblin** » July 20th, 2007, 8:48

Fear · Post by **Fear** » July 20th, 2007, 11:21

FatherJack wrote:IIRC Linksys kit is just cheaper versions of Cisco kit.

It is mostly the same software too, just less feature rich and redundant.

Fear · Post by **Fear** » July 20th, 2007, 11:22

cheeseandham wrote:lmao... don't worry your pretty head Fear, I'm back now...

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