From: efflandt@xnet.com   
      
   On 20 Apr 2004, Patrick Warner  wrote:   
   > Hi this may be a stupid question but I'm not sure how VPN works so I   
   > don't really understand the limitations.   
   >   
   > I have a home ADSL Wireless Gateway (US Robotics USR9106).   
   >   
   > Myself and my wife both work for the same company, and we connect to   
   > our company via a VPN client to access email and so on.   
   >   
   > What we have found is that only one of us can connect to the VPN at a   
   > time, and indeed once one of us connects, the other cannot connect for   
   > a while even if the first person logs out.   
   >   
   > According to the specs, my Gateway has "VPN Traversal (Pass-through   
   > IPSec, PPTP, L2TP)" but frankly I have no clue whether I have set this   
   > up properly.   
      
   Depending on the type of VPN, maybe you need a hardware router that can   
   handle the VPN instead of software on each computer.  At our office we   
   have a device which gives us DHCP addresses and handles the VPN to our   
   factory via SDSL.  Traffic between private IPs is routed over the VPN and   
   traffic to public IPs is NAT'd to the internet.  So the subnet for each   
   office is tied to our factory via VPN as one big private WAN.   
      
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