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   From: nobody@nowhere.co.uk   
      
   Andrew wrote:   
   > This is all about streamlining - and not necessarily about VPN per se.   
   > Does Windows 11 have any tricks to make free VPN connections streamlined?   
      
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   Have you thought about off-loading all the VPN setup to your router?   
      
   If you configure a LAN-to-LAN VPN in your router, all the credentials   
   required are stored in the router, not on your PC.  To invoke the VPN   
   all you need to do on the PC is to ping an IP address on the remote LAN,   
   and a reply confirms that the VPN is up.   You configure the router so   
   that the specific traffic that concerns you is sent via the VPN.  Also   
   set the router so that if no traffic is sent for a specified period, the   
   VPN is closed.   
      
   The LAN-to-LAN VPN means that all the PCs on your LAN can use the active   
   VPN.   
      
   Typically the Vigor routers from Draytek will support 32 VPN channels;   
   routers from Ciso or the like may support more.   
      
   I use this technique to support customers.  Each customer's LAN has a   
   separate IP address; so for example Mr Smith may have 192.168.100.0 / 24   
   and Mr Jones may have 192.168.101.0 / 24 and of course the customers   
   must have a suitable router and a static IP address - but usually my   
   relationship with customers starts when they come to me with a problem   
   about the unreliability or poor performance of their internet   
   connections, so changing the router and their ISP is usually the first step.   
      
   --   
   Graham J   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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