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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: Toady on March 13, 2004, 07:13:35 PM

Title: PPTP Fun
Post by: Toady on March 13, 2004, 07:13:35 PM

Well I have VPN in bound working very well and I am very happy with this,.. but it would be nice to be able to VPN on demand to my workplace, but I have no idea how to do this. Although i can setup VPN on the clients so that they can connect, it would be nicer if it would auto dial from the server.

I am running SME 5.5

Title: PPTP Fun
Post by: ryan on March 14, 2004, 06:02:18 AM

Toady,

It sounds like your looking for a site to site IPSEC VPN.  Add ons are available for SME, but you have to make sure you have the right rpms for your version of SME.  I personally use IPCop and linksys VPN router/firewalls as IPSEC endpoints to a central office.

Site to site IPSEC VPN is better than multiple PPTP connections from site A to B for simplicity.  I have found SME has issues holding more than 1 PPTP connection from one site to the same remote site.

ryan