[VPN] Connecting two offices question

[Siddhartha Jain]

Here is what Cisco thinks will save your day (and your
job ;-) )

You can use the Cisco Hardware client at your
satellite office or even a small PIX 501/506 firewall
and create a hub-spoke architecture, making of the
offices your hub and the rest as spokes. This allows
hub-spoke communication as well as spoke-spoke
communication. All this works even if your
satellite/spoke sites do not have static IP addresses
(DSL or ISDN dial up). 

The following example shows hub-spoke configuration
using Cisco routers but you can easily modify this for
PIXes. 
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk367/technologies_configuration_example09186a0080093dc8.shtml

Cisco also has to interesting features for satellite
office connectivity and communication between them:

Network Extension mode and Reverse Route Injection.
RRI is only available in the concentrator series.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2284/products_configuration_example09186a0080094a86.shtml

 --- Nicholas Irving <nirving at casinoreality.com>
wrote: > Hi all,
> I have two offices that I currently have connected
> by 2 Cisco PIX 515UR
> using the VPN functionality.
> They are using public IP addresses to communicate,
> but I would like to make
> the satellite office part of our main office
> network, ie. 10.0.0.x so that
> that they don't have to use public ip's address for
> communicating.
> 
> I would still like them to use the connectvity they
> have for all normal
> Internet traffic, except that of the private network
> that should go over the
> VPN.
> 
> The reason for this is that I would like them to
> show up in our Network
> Neighbour hood, use our central 2000 server and have
> access to all the other
> resources on our network.
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
> 
> Nicholas Irving
> nirving at casinoreality.com
> 
> 
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