[nylug-talk] Clean Slate Remote Office Connectivity

[Eric]

Jim McBride wrote:
> Hi All:
> 
> Clean Slate Remote Office Connectivity: 
> Need to set up a satellite office. Nothing in the remote office yet. Still to be leased. However the time frame is June/July 2007. 
> My question is concerning connectivity between this new satellite office and the "home" office. 
> The users in the Satellite office will need to connect to applications running on the home server in the "home" office. 
> There will be a maximum of 4 users in this remote office.
> 
> By  Clean Slate I mean that there is no current connectivity between the offices so 
> anything can be configured/built/purchased. I envision the satellite office having a fairly 
> decent DSL connection.
> 
> Would prefer an already built hardware or hardware/software combo type solution due to time constraints/learning curve that would go along with a "build a software solution" on older type hardware.
> 
> Money is a consideration but certainly not the primary one. Reliability, ease of configuration and maintenance would take a higher priority.
>  
> Suggested Solutions anyone.
> 
> 
> Jim

I have recently setup OpenVPN for a VPN solution between offices on
located at 4 corners of the country.  It scales well from 1-100's of
people and was not difficult to setup.  It has been rock solid since i
set it up and it runs on commodity hardware (a 700mhz box w/512mb ram).
 I would highly recommend it as a VPN solution, whether or not you have
money to spend.

-Eric