Gerhard,  

Can you tell me how you set this up please? I have an SMC 7004VBR. I started
looking into this sometime back & never got anywhere with it. Time got the
better of me & I never got back to it. 

Sorry for hijacking your thread Russell :)

Joe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu 
> [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Gerhard Fiedler
> Sent: 05 December 2005 14:33
> To: piclist@mit.edu
> Subject: Re: [EE] VPN solution wanted
> 
> 
> Russell McMahon wrote:
> 
> > I'd like (wouldn't we all) to transparently join two or 
> more networks 
> > across the internet as a VPN (Virtual Private Network) 
> preferably (of
> > course) for free and ideally without venturing too far away from 
> > Microsoft land, [...]
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> I use an SMC Barricade router for this for some time 
> (SMC7004FW). Works without a problem. There are other brands 
> and models, too. Documentation of these devices is often 
> lacking, so some experimenting regarding the settings may be 
> required :)
> 
> Unless you want to set up a Linux or Windows server as 
> router, gateway, firewall and VPN server (replacing your 
> hardware router/gateway/firewall), using a router with 
> built-in VPN server is IMO the only practical way, since I 
> don't think most normal router/gateway devices would support 
> a VPN server behind them. (This probably depends a lot on the 
> specific router and VPN implementation; but I think you would 
> have to know a lot about both to be sure.)
> 
> Note that no matter what exact setup you use, don't expect it 
> to work like a LAN connection (even though it logically looks 
> like a LAN connection). Many programs apparently use a high 
> number of serialized small requests and are not 
> well-threaded, which means that they may slow down to a crawl 
> even with a decent connection speed, due to the often much 
> higher latency. Microsoft Explorer is one such program. Use 
> the command line (or FTP) for remote file management over 
> VPN... Also some client-server systems are designed for LAN 
> use. Extending their use to a WAN using VPN may or may not 
> work (well or at all), due to the same issue. 
> 
> Gerhard
> 
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