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| message from Graham Harrison on 18 May 2003 |
I have a frog. I'm quite happy with it in general. I use Microsoft ICS
to distribute my connection to 3 other computers.
I need to establish a tunnel from one of the PCs behind the ICS machine and
ICS doesn't let me do it. I considered a Vigor that connected via the frog
but they were unable to tell me whether their kit could do what I want.
They "thought" you could only establish the tunnel from the router, not from
the PC behind the router. If anyone knows different, or can suggest a
piece of kit that will allow me to do what I want then I'd love to hear
about it.
However, I'm thinking I'll have to ditch the frog and go to a combined
modem/hub/router. Which raise two questions:
1) I'm with BTOpenworld do I need to tell them what I'm doing?
2) Can anyone recommend the piece of kit I need? Ideally, I'd actually
like a 5 port device - 4 ports to support the 4 computers I'm currently
supporting plus one more for the work laptop I need the tunnel for.
However, I've got a netgear EN104tp so I can always stack it with whatever I
buy.
In case it makes any difference I joined up in the days when BT actually
sent out an engineer to do the install!
Thanks for your assistance.
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| Buzz replied to Graham Harrison on 21 May 2003 |
Happy with the frog... so you're the one!
Assuming you are talking about VPN tunnels whether MS or ipsec or whatever
I believe both Wingate and Winroute (replacements for ICS will allow this
without changing hardware). It is important to find out what sort of
tunnel you're talking about though, tunnel is so generic it could mean
anything, if it is VPN you still need to know what protocols are used as
some kit will support different types to different degrees.
I don't believe you need to let BT know unless your on a business line,
but as you've got the frog I wouldn't worry.
I believe most of the current crop of dsl routers will do VPN passthrough
of most flavours. Check out adslguide.org.uk for some pretty good, up-to-
date, hardware reviews that answer questions such as yours. Personally my
Zyxel P64x series always gave good results and passed IpSec and MS LT2TP
(or whatever its called) without a problem. I've since gone wireless with
an Actiontec wireless adsl router which also allows VPN passthrough
without any problems.
HTH
Buzz
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