Okay any hardware/software advice would be much appreciated. I know a tad about VPN's etc but have never set one up. I work for a small company with ~ 15 employees. We are getting ready to split up our operations to have a Retail/Main offices and Shipping/Recieving/Fullfillment in another location.
My question is obviously a DSL connection at both locations with a site-to-site VPN connection would suit us fine for the shipping dept to have access to shared directories, etc. and for the orders to be printed from the main office to the shipping's site shared printers. Both locations will also need internet access (NAT/firewall).
Has anyone ever setup something similar to this scenario? I would prefer to use a network appliance as opposed to setting up a linux box on each side (I have a lot of other things to do too!), I have been looking at the Symantec VPN 100 and a couple of other cheaper VPN supported firewall/routers. From my understanding, just because the router would support the VPN connection doesn't actually mean it issues and handles the VPN connection.. so there would still need to be a software VPN connection made (built-in Win2k? client/server?).
Thanks for any advice & direction.
My question is obviously a DSL connection at both locations with a site-to-site VPN connection would suit us fine for the shipping dept to have access to shared directories, etc. and for the orders to be printed from the main office to the shipping's site shared printers. Both locations will also need internet access (NAT/firewall).
Has anyone ever setup something similar to this scenario? I would prefer to use a network appliance as opposed to setting up a linux box on each side (I have a lot of other things to do too!), I have been looking at the Symantec VPN 100 and a couple of other cheaper VPN supported firewall/routers. From my understanding, just because the router would support the VPN connection doesn't actually mean it issues and handles the VPN connection.. so there would still need to be a software VPN connection made (built-in Win2k? client/server?).
Thanks for any advice & direction.