[VPN] satellite office

[Scott Penno]

James,

You mention the 'NAT server' a few times.  Exactly what is it?  Does it
support IPSec?  Depending on what it is, this box may be able to terminate
one end of your VPN.

Scott.



----- Original Message -----
From: "James McNeill" <james at heague.com.au>
To: <vpn at lists.shmoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 10:40 AM
Subject: [VPN] satellite office


William Heague
Hi all.
We've recently opened a small new satellite office. I intend to connect the
4 workstations we have there to the server at our main office via VPN,
but...
Since it is such a small office, I was wondering about just setting each
workstation up as an individual remote client, rather that purchasing more
hardware to provide a VPN server for the whole office.
Q1. is this a really bad idea for reasons that I can't immediately see?
Q2. will the MS vpn client work from behind a NATing internet server?
Q3. If I were to set up a VPN server for the office, could I run, say
freeswan from behind the NAT server?
cheers & TIA,

-James