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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: Byte on April 25, 2003, 12:50:08 AM

Title: Advice
Post by: Byte on April 25, 2003, 12:50:08 AM

Hi,

I want to setup another SME server to connect to our main server they are in the same building one downstairs one upstairs would I want to use VPN and could view both networks from either place or would i need to install a router or would it not matter which way I go.

One is ALREADY a dhcp the other I want to be DHCP but at the moment I have it configured both DHCP using a linx floppy route but I can only see 1 side of the network and am having few problems trying to get the new server to view its own network, even though i can see the already existing network

Thanks for any advice

Byte

Title: Re: Advice
Post by: Bill Talcott on April 25, 2003, 01:53:34 AM

How are the two connected? Do they each have their own internet connection, or on the same LAN, or something else?

VPN is designed for creating a secure tunnel through an insecure network. If they're both part of the same (trusted) LAN, there's no reason to have VPN. However if they each have separate internet connections, FreeS/WAN is probably the way to go.