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| Dr. VPNlabs Question (Archived) |
| Joseph Brown |
posted: 2002-02-28 10:30:43
I have to connect a remote office with 1 windows
2000 server to our main office with 12 PC's on a
win2k Domian. The company is small, so price is
somewhat of a concern. The remote site connects
to the internet via a DSL line at 128 Kbps. The
main site is connected to the internet via a
comcast@work cable connection, because DSL was not
available in that area. I tried using the Windows
2000 servers to create the VPN but I had
difficulties doing this because by default
comcast's on-site router blocks all inbound ports.
I pay for the openport service and have tried
opening what I thought were the correct ports.
What would be the most cost effective hardware or
software solution that will work for my
situation.
Thank You for your help |
| Dr. VPNlabs |
posted: 2002-02-28 12:49:09
Joseph,
I don't know
that a hardware VPN
solution would solve your
problem.
Here are some
other things to check:
Have you opened
1723, 1721 and UDP
500?
Does your router
pass GRE packets(protocol
47)?
Also does your
router pass Protocol
ID
50 (IPSec ESP) and
Protocol ID 51 (IPSec
AH).
If you want
to get an inexpensive VPN
solution, look at
http://www.snapgear.com/
http://www.netscreen.com/
or http://www.zyxel.com .
Do you have
control over what ports
are open or closed on the
Comcast
router?
cheers,
Dr. VPN Labs Staff |
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