Help with Win2K VPN Server

[Grobyc]

Does anyone have any documentation (or know of some) which explains how to setup lan to lan bridge over the internet (adsl connection).

Using windows 2000 server at both ends
Both TCP/IP and IPX protocols

[craigmodius]

There's One Here (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/deploy/confeat/vpnscen.asp)

don't know if it's specifically LAN to LAN but you might want to check it out.

[The Computer Valet]

I've done this a couple of times.

Post some more about what you're trying to do.

m

[Grobyc]

What I am after is linking 2 seperate lan's both IPX and TCP/IP protocols over an ADSL internet connection so that each pc on the "a" side can see / access every pc on the "b" side and vice versa.

currently both sides are setup with windows 2000 pro but they are prepared to buy 2 copys of win2000 server if it will do what they want.

the "a" side is setup on 192.168.0.x with 3 pc's + server and the "b" side is setup on 192.168.1.x with 2 pc's + server. Both servers are set to .254

They dont want / need any other features of windows2000 server (currently and not in the forseeable future) maybe there is another way (or program) to do what they want. I have tried Wingate VPN but that wont route IPX but otherwise is perfect (maybe someone knows how to get IPX via WingateVPN working)

the pc's at both ends have internal ADSL modems and use RAS to connect to the internet so hardware routers are an issue without replacing the modems and they dont want to do that...

one program they want to run over the connection only works on IPX hence need to route IPX.

[beshman2]

Low cost VPN devices that work with almost anything or you could try Win 2000 Terminal Services...

[The Computer Valet]

Well, here's one thing I'm concerned about:

IIRC, you can't have the LAN IP subnets the _same_ on both ends. The reason for this is that the client routers don't know how to route packets. If the LAN is 192.168.x.x. on both ends, how does the router know whether to route over the VPN or in the LAN? Even if IPX is passing through the VPN, you're still bundling the IPX packets in TCP.

Have you tried this yet or are you still thinking about it?

If they simply want desktop connections to each computer, you could do VPN then VNC.

What about PCAnywhere? It has encryption levels that are pretty robust. You will have to do some port forwarding to get this work, though.

m

[cyberhh]

1. Buy Windows 2000 Server
2. User RRAS (routing and Remote access) w/2 NIC's
3. In the RRAS setup specify VPN connection, set secret and have fun. I would reccommend creating an IPSec policy to increase secuity.

Also why do you need IPX/SPX? I am not honestly sure f windows 2k server's vpn will do that.

But I will try and check.