1acdb9a3   
   From: merlyn@geeks.org   
      
   robro  writes:   
   >I have a problem that I can't figure out any way to resolve.  We have   
   >a software application that we support that's installed at various   
   >client sites.  Each client uses a different VPN solution.  My   
   >developer needs to be able to connect to each client at any given time   
   >to do support or perform software upgrades, but the various VPN   
   >clients have problems co-existing on one machine.  The only thing I   
   >can think of is installing something like Virtual PC and installing a   
   >different client each on a different VPC (though I'm not 100% certain   
   >this will even work)... he'd have to set up a development environment   
   >in each VPC as well which is a PITA.  I can't really set him up with   
   >more hardware as it needs to be portable and lugging several laptops   
   >back and forth between home and work isn't really a convenient   
   >option.  Does anyone have another idea as to how I might get around   
   >this issue?  It's only going to get worse as more and more clients   
   >begin to use our software.   
      
   Welcome to the wooly world of VPN. :)   
      
   Unfortunatly, there's not a whole lot of things you can do. The   
   virtual machine one is in use in more than a few sites that I know about.   
   Yes, it will work just fine (assuming you have a NAT-T compliant VPN   
   solution or setup the VM to bridge packets out if there's more than   
   one IP available).   
      
   You can try to figure out a VPN client that works with all VPN servers   
   out there including yours, and tell your clients to use that one.   
      
   Or, you can change your VPN solution to do something like use the   
   builtin IPsec/L2TP client in windows which other VPN clients generally   
   don't mess with.   
      
   But yes, on windows, its generally a pain dealing with multiple VPN   
   client software, and they all tend to interfer with each other because   
   they have to hook low into the same TCP/IP stack.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)