Andrew
Wed Dec 31 10:34:52 CST 2003
The Linksys BEFSX41 doesn't support PPTP as an endpoint. It also
won't establish a usable IPSEC connection to ISA Server, although it would
probably be great at an SBS 2003 Standard location with another BEFSX41 as
the firewall. SMC makes a VPN endpoint router that supports both IPSEC and
PPTP. I think I made a PPTP connection with the SMC to an SBS 2000 but that
was a while ago and I need to give that another shot. The downside of the
SMC is that the remote management port is fixed at 8080, which many ISP's
have blocked. The Linksys lets you change it to 9000 or something else
that's clear. I'd love to find an inexpensive router that will establish an
IPSEC connection to an SBS 2000/SBS 2003 Premium-- it makes things a lot
more transparent to the user than DUN VPN.
"Jeff Middleton [SBS-MVP]" <jeff@cfisolutions.com> wrote in message
news:uHVo%23OuzDHA.4064@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> What you are looking for is not uncommon. Linksys and many others make
> routers to do this. The key point you need to look for is that you want a
> router that is capable of being a VPN Client for either IPSEC or PPTP
tunnel
> to a Windows Server. Linksys routers are reputed to be much easier to
> configure as the tunnel endpoints at both ends rather than as a client to
a
> Windows Server, but they can do either way.
>
>
> "Thomas Swatch" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6BA09C9F-EF56-4BF6-A1E8-C3BF5D802871@microsoft.com...
> > I have the following situation:
> >
> > Office:
> > SBS2k Server + ISA on DSL (configured to act as VPN server)
> >
> > Remote location:
> > 1 (or more in the future) workstations on DSL which I want to VPN to the
> server
> >
> > I would like to use a VPN capable router to establish the VPN connection
> as a client to the server (so the workstations don't have to do VPN
> directly). Can somebody give me a recomendation on a (preferably cheap)
> router for that purpose?
> >
> > Thanks!
>
>