Help setting up VPN

I need some help setting a VPN between 2 remote offices. Currently each site
has a Netgear FVS318v1 and a FVS318v3 router that was doing the VPN between
the 2 sites, but lately I am having problems with it. What my plan was to do
was use my Windows 2003 servers at each location to do the VPN between sites.
Is this possible to do with the Netgear routers still in place, but turning
off the VPN's on them and letting windows do it for me? i also need all
systems at each loaction to be able to access resources at the remote
locations. I will continue to use the netgear routers as my firewall also.
Both Windows servers also only have one NIC card in them and I plan to leave
it that way if possible.

Thanks

That sounds pretty silly to me. You would be making everything more
complicated than necessary. The obvious endpoint for the VPN is at the
perimiter of each site, which is the router/firewall.

You would have to forward the encrypted traffic from the
router/firewall to the VPN server on the LAN. In the other direction you
would need to route the traffic for the other site to the VPN server on the
LAN so that it was encrypted and encapsulated before it reached the gateway.

"Scott Micale" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:C02326F9-D4D0-410C-BB28-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I need some help setting a VPN between 2 remote offices. Currently each
>site
> has a Netgear FVS318v1 and a FVS318v3 router that was doing the VPN
> between
> the 2 sites, but lately I am having problems with it. What my plan was to
> do
> was use my Windows 2003 servers at each location to do the VPN between
> sites.
> Is this possible to do with the Netgear routers still in place, but
> turning
> off the VPN's on them and letting windows do it for me? i also need all
> systems at each loaction to be able to access resources at the remote
> locations. I will continue to use the netgear routers as my firewall
> also.
> Both Windows servers also only have one NIC card in them and I plan to
> leave
> it that way if possible.
>
> Thanks

Bill,

So would you nix the Netgear routers? My problem is they are not handling
the VPN's, but they work fine as a firewall.

Thanks

"Bill Grant" <not.available@online> wrote in message
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> That sounds pretty silly to me. You would be making everything more
> complicated than necessary. The obvious endpoint for the VPN is at the
> perimiter of each site, which is the router/firewall.
>
> You would have to forward the encrypted traffic from the
> router/firewall to the VPN server on the LAN. In the other direction you
> would need to route the traffic for the other site to the VPN server on
> the LAN so that it was encrypted and encapsulated before it reached the
> gateway.
>
> "Scott Micale" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:C02326F9-D4D0-410C-BB28-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>I need some help setting a VPN between 2 remote offices. Currently each
>>site
>> has a Netgear FVS318v1 and a FVS318v3 router that was doing the VPN
>> between
>> the 2 sites, but lately I am having problems with it. What my plan was
>> to do
>> was use my Windows 2003 servers at each location to do the VPN between
>> sites.
>> Is this possible to do with the Netgear routers still in place, but
>> turning
>> off the VPN's on them and letting windows do it for me? i also need all
>> systems at each loaction to be able to access resources at the remote
>> locations. I will continue to use the netgear routers as my firewall
>> also.
>> Both Windows servers also only have one NIC card in them and I plan to
>> leave
>> it that way if possible.
>>
>> Thanks
>

Yes, I would look at upgrading the firewall/routers. Offloading the
site-to-site VPN function to Windows servers on the LAN is not a reasonable
option.

"Scott Micale" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Bill,
>
> So would you nix the Netgear routers? My problem is they are not handling
> the VPN's, but they work fine as a firewall.
>
> Thanks
>
> "Bill Grant" <not.available@online> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> That sounds pretty silly to me. You would be making everything more
>> complicated than necessary. The obvious endpoint for the VPN is at the
>> perimiter of each site, which is the router/firewall.
>>
>> You would have to forward the encrypted traffic from the
>> router/firewall to the VPN server on the LAN. In the other direction you
>> would need to route the traffic for the other site to the VPN server on
>> the LAN so that it was encrypted and encapsulated before it reached the
>> gateway.
>>
>> "Scott Micale" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:C02326F9-D4D0-410C-BB28-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>I need some help setting a VPN between 2 remote offices. Currently each
>>>site
>>> has a Netgear FVS318v1 and a FVS318v3 router that was doing the VPN
>>> between
>>> the 2 sites, but lately I am having problems with it. What my plan was
>>> to do
>>> was use my Windows 2003 servers at each location to do the VPN between
>>> sites.
>>> Is this possible to do with the Netgear routers still in place, but
>>> turning
>>> off the VPN's on them and letting windows do it for me? i also need all
>>> systems at each loaction to be able to access resources at the remote
>>> locations. I will continue to use the netgear routers as my firewall
>>> also.
>>> Both Windows servers also only have one NIC card in them and I plan to
>>> leave
>>> it that way if possible.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>