Joe McCauley wrote:

> 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. 

I don't think the 7004VBR has a VPN server. I think what it might have is a 
VPN client built in; this allows you to have your router connect to an 
external VPN server and place your whole LAN on that external network. Or 
maybe it only has VPN pass-through.

WRT common broadband routers, there are three types of VPN features:

- VPN pass-through. Allows outbound connections from a client behind the 
router to a VPN server in the outside world. After this, only the one 
client computer that connected to the server is on the VPN network.

- VPN client built-in. Allows the router to be configured as a VPN client, 
and it's the router that connects to that outside VPN server. After this, 
the whole LAN behind the router is connected to that outside VPN.

- VPN server built-in. This is what I think Russell asked about. This 
allows an outside client to connect to the router through VPN. After this, 
the outside client is logically connected to the inside LAN behind the 
router. (You also want either a static IP address or a dynamic IP address 
with a dynamic DNS service for this, because otherwise it might be 
difficult to connect to your VPN server.)

Gerhard

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