VPN - plss help on VPN..

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plss help on VPN..

adrian

2004-09-15, 8:47 pm

hi to all.. i'm an IT student taking up CNAP4 which is about WAN
Technologies. We have a project which is to wire a company having 2
main offices and each office have 5 remote branches and each branches
have 2 workstations. Here is a much detailed one:

- MainOfficeA must have 25 workstations (including servers) in their
office, divided into three groups; 8 workstations in IT department, 7
workstations in Admin dept., and 10 in Officers dept.

- The MainOfficeB have 10 workstations, 4 in IT dept. and 6 in
Officers dept.
- Remote branches have 2 workstations each.

I want to use VPN Technology to wire the company. Could anyone help me
in making a topology and how to configure a VPN technology on that
scenario.. I appreciate much your help.. thanks..

Kirk Goins

2004-09-15, 8:47 pm

Since you are a student... YOU" should first design your network.

Forget you are using a VPN for now. Design your network assuming a
dedicated network, say via FrameRelay. In your design initially just use
a generic router symbol. If you are using VLANs and such, get that all
working and get your IP scheme the way you want it.

Now that you have a Workable and Efficient network it will be straight
forward to use a VPN solution by either using routers that support VPN
connections, Firewalls that all so support VPN or Dedicated VPN devices.

adrian wrote:

> hi to all.. i'm an IT student taking up CNAP4 which is about WAN
> Technologies. We have a project which is to wire a company having 2
> main offices and each office have 5 remote branches and each branches
> have 2 workstations. Here is a much detailed one:
>
> - MainOfficeA must have 25 workstations (including servers) in their
> office, divided into three groups; 8 workstations in IT department, 7
> workstations in Admin dept., and 10 in Officers dept.
>
> - The MainOfficeB have 10 workstations, 4 in IT dept. and 6 in
> Officers dept.
> - Remote branches have 2 workstations each.
>
> I want to use VPN Technology to wire the company. Could anyone help me
> in making a topology and how to configure a VPN technology on that
> scenario.. I appreciate much your help.. thanks..

Lou G.

2004-09-15, 8:47 pm

This is a very easy scenario. It is only scary because of the number
of branches. If taken one piece at a time is a trivial problem.

The two main offices may be wired together via a Cable company, lets
say Comcast or ATT. I would connect them with a T1 line. Cost: around
150 a month.
The remote branches each get a Cable connection and connect through
VPN tunnel using two VPNRouters like the Linksys RV042.

MainOffice1--router----T1----router2------MainOffice2

bRANCH1----VPNROUTER1---Internet---VPNROUTER2----MainOfficeX

PROBLEM: HEY GUYS HOW DO WE PROVIDE internet access to the Main
Ofices in this scenario?

perhaps we should have MainOfficeX--Router---T1----ISP ?? and the ISP
will route packets to the other MainOffice with the same
configuration?

Lewis G.

mighty_gulaman@yahoo.com (adrian) wrote in message news:<561a4d2d.0409060848.6628f63d@posting.google.com>...
> hi to all.. i'm an IT student taking up CNAP4 which is about WAN
> Technologies. We have a project which is to wire a company having 2
> main offices and each office have 5 remote branches and each branches
> have 2 workstations. Here is a much detailed one:
>
> - MainOfficeA must have 25 workstations (including servers) in their
> office, divided into three groups; 8 workstations in IT department, 7
> workstations in Admin dept., and 10 in Officers dept.
>
> - The MainOfficeB have 10 workstations, 4 in IT dept. and 6 in
> Officers dept.
> - Remote branches have 2 workstations each.
>
> I want to use VPN Technology to wire the company. Could anyone help me
> in making a topology and how to configure a VPN technology on that
> scenario.. I appreciate much your help.. thanks..