how to connect to a lan over the internet !

[maxx]

Hi there.

I need some help here.

I need some info about connection to a lan over the internet.

 

[Nexus]

You will need Tcp/ip somewhere in there...

 

[maxx]

I know this:

I have to use TCP/IP both places.

Then i need som help coz.

I have a lan @ home and i want that lan to have access to the lan across the internet.

How do i connect the 2 lan's with out letting everyone on the internet have access to both lan's

Please help me. Coz If i make this work i can get rid of my ISDN link to work and get ADSL instead.


MAXX

 

[Sy]

You mean VPN
~Sy

 

[reboot]

It's called Virtual Private Networking.

You'll need at least one server (NT/2K) at each end.
other stations can be Win9x.
It can also be done in Linux but I have no idea how.

instructions should be all over, in particular

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/library/howitworks/communications/remo teaccess/vpnoverview.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/commserv/deployment/planguides/installing_pptp.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/ISN/ind_solutions/virtual_private_networking.asp

voila!

 

[Luc]

Or you can spend two times $50.00 instead of many hundreds of $$$$ for Win2K Server at the two ends, and buy IPRoute which supports IPSec., interoperable with IPSec from Linux, and runs on a 386Sx/16 with 1 (one) MB of RAM, and does NAT as well if you need it for your local LAN.... It even comes with a 286 executable if you want to reuse an old 286/20 (which is about as fast as a 386/25 in DOS!). See some comments and pointers here:

http://www.insyte.com/iproute.html
http://www.connactivity.com/~esj/ipr/ipr.html
http://projects.shn.nu/homenetwork/iproute/

Of course, you can do it for free using Linux, but I do not know how, and $100.00 is a small price to pay to stay within familiar territory (DOS) and get tech support as needed, specially for a one time job...

 

[reboot]

Luc, I wasnt precise enough, you dont need servers, just workstations but they need to be win2k/nt4 NOT win9x.

 

[GKusnick]

maxx: How are your LANs connected to the internet now? Some hardware routers have VPN capability built in, or available as a firmware upgrade. This seems like the simplest approach to me, since it doesn't require changing your software setup at all; the VPN would just kick in transparently when you address a packet to the other LAN.

 

[Jackass JoeJoe]

You need NT? Hmm. Strangley enough, NT doesn't play any part in my companies VPN.

If you have a router of some sort (ISDN/Cable/DSL), Lucent has a few models of routers and have VPN client software for them. You could also go the firewall/VPN appliance and connect the two firewalls or connect using VPN client software.

Nevertheless, NT is not a pre-requisite.