[nylug-talk] Clean Slate Remote Office Connectivity

[Marco Romeny]

On 4/20/07, Eric <etamme at optonline.net> wrote:
> 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.

I second openvpn. Not only good for this kind of setup, it's actually pretty
easy to do roadwarrior configurations without static ip-addresses.

But I think getting enough bandwidth is the biggest issue as always....

>
> -Eric
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