[ale] OT:VPN experts...

[Matt Smith]

Well, this is probably a total fluke, but we used a DLink DI-614+ at a trade
show recently and several of the laptops were able to VPN in back to the
office simultaneously.  Now, this is several tunnels back to the same
firewall, so kind of a unique situation, but it did work.  There were a few
problems if multiple people tried to connect the tunnels at the same time.
As long as they did it staggered, it worked.

There was no explanation, of course - I was just pleasantly surprised.


--Matt


-----Original Message-----
From: Geoffrey [mailto:esoteric at 3times25.net]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 8:44 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] OT:VPN experts...


Zyman, Andy wrote:
> not an expert on VPN at all. But I'm a "proud owner of " wireless SMC
> Barracuda, plus I have to use VP ( Nortel ) pretty often. So before i
bought
> this router i did a little bit of reading - from what i understand u can
not
> ( please correct) have multiple vpn connections via one router of this
> class. I think i read this either on specs or on forums.

Back when I was connecting to a nortel vpn when I was with AT&T, this 
was the case.  Again, I believe it was because the connections must be 
made from different ips.  If you're trying to connect from two machines 
that are natted through the same firewall, you'll both appear to be 
coming from the same ip, causing confusion on the part of the vpn server.

-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

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Think about it...

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