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   Message 908 of 2,349   
   Dan Williams to Dan Williams   
   Re: Constant Hardware VPN connection   
   13 Apr 04 16:24:19   
   
   XPost: microsoft.public.win2000.ras_routing   
   From: dan_williams@newcross-nursing.com   
      
   On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 08:47:28 +0000 (UTC), Dan Williams wrote:   
      
   > We currently have a SBS 2000 Server and are using it as a RAS server for   
   > all our 13 external offices to connect via a VPN dial-up connection. All   
   > the offices are using an ADSL connection, so the speeds quite good.   
   >   
   > However, we are moving our head offices to a different location and need to   
   > have it constantly connected to our existing HQ via ADSL.   
   >   
   > I'm planning on setting up a new RAID server as an additional domain   
   > controller to our SBS server and hopefully replicate some of its data too   
   > and from it. The idea is to use it as a backup server, so that if the SBS   
   > server goes down, then people will still be able to login via the other   
   > server.   
   >   
   > In order to be able to do this, i really need to have the new PC   
   > automatically and constantly connected to our SBS server? Do i need to go   
   > down the route of using a hardware VPN connection, because obviously i   
   > can't use a dial-up connection as it requires someone to manually connect   
   > it, and it's likely to drop, and there's reconnection issues.   
   >   
   > Can anyone give me some ideas about how to go about doing this?   
      
   It's ok, i've found a solution to my problems here:-   
      
   http://www.linksys.com/edu/page12.asp   
      
      
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   Thanks in advance   
      
   Dan Williams   
      
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