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Connecting two offices across the interwebnets

Posted: July 10th, 2007, 13:22
by Fear
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)

Posted: July 10th, 2007, 13:35
by spoodie
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Posted: July 10th, 2007, 13:54
by Woo Elephant Yeah
I shall enquire about what we use at one of our sites which is set up in the same way to our Head Office

Posted: July 10th, 2007, 14:11
by FatherJack
BT do something. We bought a type of leased line from them to connect us to Walsgrave Hospital. Even does IPX, I think.

Posted: July 10th, 2007, 14:16
by Fear
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!

Posted: July 10th, 2007, 14:26
by spoodie
Fear wrote:Thanks guys.
No problem, glad I could help.

Posted: July 10th, 2007, 14:33
by Fear
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.
:lol:

Posted: July 11th, 2007, 10:53
by Woo Elephant Yeah

Posted: July 11th, 2007, 11:18
by FatherJack
IIRC Linksys kit is just cheaper versions of Cisco kit.

Posted: July 11th, 2007, 11:34
by friznit
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Re: Connecting two offices across the interwebnets

Posted: July 20th, 2007, 8:34
by cheeseandham
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... :wave:

Posted: July 20th, 2007, 8:48
by amblin
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Posted: July 20th, 2007, 11:21
by Fear
FatherJack wrote:IIRC Linksys kit is just cheaper versions of Cisco kit.
:above:
It is mostly the same software too, just less feature rich and redundant.

Re: Connecting two offices across the interwebnets

Posted: July 20th, 2007, 11:22
by Fear
cheeseandham wrote:lmao... don't worry your pretty head Fear, I'm back now... :wave:
:whew: