VPN Installation and startup

I've taken on learning about VPN the head way. Get it working, I'm told.
Qwest has been no help. We have Qwest.net as the ISP for our DSL line which
has been a standard Dynamic address with an ActionTec DSL Gateway R1520SU.
We have a Linksys WRT54G to get the computers on the net wireless.
We want to support an offsite employee who has Cable modem at home for good
speed.

Do I need to have a static IP address at the office network?
Do I need a block of static IPs?

If I get a static IP can the ActionTec to bridge the address to the internet
or will it route?

So many questions so little documentation?

Thanks for any and all of your help.

John

You might want to try a VPN newsgroup instead. This one
specializes in MS routers.

Typically, you want to have 1 static address for the
office, so the VPN for the guy working at home can locate
the office router -- check how that works with your VPN
software (it has some documentation right?). Also notice
that dynamic IPs with some ISPs rarely change, and that
might be sufficient depending on what you are doing and
the level of expertise of the guy at home. The guy
working at home can have a dynamic IP (at least based on
my experience with OpenVPN)

>-----Original Message-----
>I've taken on learning about VPN the head way. Get it
working, I'm told.
>Qwest has been no help. We have Qwest.net as the ISP
for our DSL line which
>has been a standard Dynamic address with an ActionTec
DSL Gateway R1520SU.
>We have a Linksys WRT54G to get the computers on the net
wireless.
>We want to support an offsite employee who has Cable
modem at home for good
>speed.
>
>Do I need to have a static IP address at the office
network?
>Do I need a block of static IPs?
>
>If I get a static IP can the ActionTec to bridge the
address to the internet
>or will it route?
>
>So many questions so little documentation?
>
>Thanks for any and all of your help.
>
>John
>
>
>.
>

If it's for a company, you might want to look into buying hardware VPN
routers.


"John Fors" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I've taken on learning about VPN the head way. Get it working, I'm told.
> Qwest has been no help. We have Qwest.net as the ISP for our DSL line
which
> has been a standard Dynamic address with an ActionTec DSL Gateway R1520SU.
> We have a Linksys WRT54G to get the computers on the net wireless.
> We want to support an offsite employee who has Cable modem at home for
good
> speed.
>
> Do I need to have a static IP address at the office network?
> Do I need a block of static IPs?
>
> If I get a static IP can the ActionTec to bridge the address to the
internet
> or will it route?
>
> So many questions so little documentation?
>
> Thanks for any and all of your help.
>
> John
>
>