VPN Pass Through

I'm interested in looking in to a VPN connection to my computer club
network.

At the moment most of it is a complete mystery to me.

I see some of the routers have VPN Pass Through - what is that
exactly?

Geoff Lane
Welwyn Hatfield Computer Club - Hertfordshire, UK
www.whcc.co.uk - Online facilities for non locals

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 16:13:44 +0100, Geoff Lane wrote:

> I'm interested in looking in to a VPN connection to my computer club
> network.
>
> At the moment most of it is a complete mystery to me.
>
> I see some of the routers have VPN Pass Through - what is that
> exactly?
>
> Geoff Lane
> Welwyn Hatfield Computer Club - Hertfordshire, UK
> www.whcc.co.uk - Online facilities for non locals

Any router is capable of passing VPN through, nore expensive routers will
actually create your VPN and route your local network over it.

graham

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Graham
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>Any router is capable of passing VPN through

Nope.

For a basic PPTP VPN, any router can be configured to forward the
requisite port 1723, but it has to support the GRE protocol in order to
correctly handle the connection.

As an example, the Netgear RP114 is incapable of this.
--
Toby

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 22:17:11 +0000, Toby Groves wrote:

> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Graham
> <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>>Any router is capable of passing VPN through
>
> Nope.
>
> For a basic PPTP VPN, any router can be configured to forward the
> requisite port 1723, but it has to support the GRE protocol in order to
> correctly handle the connection.
>
> As an example, the Netgear RP114 is incapable of this.

I Still stick to my origonal statement:-

Any router is capable of passing VPN through

But I will add:-

Ditch windoze

graham

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Graham
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>I Still stick to my origonal statement:-
>

Please yourself, you're still wrong.

>Any router is capable of passing VPN through
>
>But I will add:-
>
>Ditch windoze

Windows has bugger all to do with it, if the router doesn't understand
the GRE protocol then it won't work, regardless of the operating system
in use.
--
Toby