Wireless router and VPN questions

Hi,

At our small company, we are using a Linksys BEFW11S4 for our wired
network. We now would like to add enable wireless access from inside
the office and VPN support for remote users. From my reading, I
believe the BEFW11S4 already has support for VPN pass through, but I'm
still not sure about this. We also just purchased a Linksys WRV54G.

My questions are:

1) What's the difference between the VPN support that the BEFW11S4
gives you and the support offered by the WRV54G? Is it the way in
which we would have to configure VPN?
2) Can anyone direct me to documentation of configuring VPN access to
the internal network?
3) We are thinking of returning the WRV54G and getting a Dlink DI-624,
because they are now offering wireless speeds of up 108 mbs with the
latest firmware release. Are their any problems connecting the
BEFW11S4 and the DI-624?


Thanks in advance for all the help.


Regards,

--Garett

(E-Mail Removed) (Garett Chang) wrote in
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> Hi,
>
> At our small company, we are using a Linksys BEFW11S4 for our wired
> network. We now would like to add enable wireless access from inside
> the office and VPN support for remote users. From my reading, I
> believe the BEFW11S4 already has support for VPN pass through, but I'm
> still not sure about this. We also just purchased a Linksys WRV54G.

Yeah, the 11S4 has VPN pass through logic that can be enabled on the
router.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1) What's the difference between the VPN support that the BEFW11S4
> gives you and the support offered by the WRV54G? Is it the way in
> which we would have to configure VPN?

VPN is based on protocols and if both devices support IPSEC protocol,
then it maakes no difference as long as the VPN protocol match on the two
end points.

> 2) Can anyone direct me to documentation of configuring VPN access
> to the internal network?

There are plenty of how to(s) by O/S such as Win 2k, XP on setting up VPN
between two machines out on Google.

> 3) We are thinking of returning the WRV54G and getting a Dlink
> DI-624, because they are now offering wireless speeds of up 108 mbs
> with the latest firmware release. Are their any problems connecting
> the BEFW11S4 and the DI-624?

I don't know.

Duane

"Garett Chang" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed) om...
> Hi,
>
> At our small company, we are using a Linksys BEFW11S4 for our wired
> network. We now would like to add enable wireless access from inside
> the office and VPN support for remote users. From my reading, I
> believe the BEFW11S4 already has support for VPN pass through, but I'm
> still not sure about this. We also just purchased a Linksys WRV54G.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1) What's the difference between the VPN support that the BEFW11S4
> gives you and the support offered by the WRV54G? Is it the way in
> which we would have to configure VPN?
> 2) Can anyone direct me to documentation of configuring VPN access to
> the internal network?
> 3) We are thinking of returning the WRV54G and getting a Dlink DI-624,
> because they are now offering wireless speeds of up 108 mbs with the
> latest firmware release. Are their any problems connecting the
> BEFW11S4 and the DI-624?

According to the Linksys Knowledgebase, the BEFW11S4 will only do one IPSEC
connection at a time.

http://makeashorterlink.com/?X16552E46


Bob