Re: Learning WAN technologies

[Jerome Walter <walter () nexantis net>]

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Bryce Embry wrote:

| Howdy,
|
| I've recently become responsible for an enterprise that includes
| multiple buildings in different parts of a county.  I am comfortable
| with LAN technologies and how the Internet works, but don't know much
| about private networks once the LAN has left the building.
|
| Can you recommend good resources for learning the options I have for
| configuring a wide-area network to connect these multiple buildings?
| Right now I don't know enough to be able to intelligently sort through
| the various ideas floated by vendors and colleagues.
|
| I'd love any white papers, book recommendations, mailing lists,
| journals, websites, etc.

Start by a google search on the papers you find about VPN (Virtual
Private Networks), as it seems what you are looking for.

If you are not comfortable with this technology, it is a mean to connect
several private networks linked through the internet in a secure wide
private network.

O'Reilly books are usually good in most matters, but you will serely
find a lot of useful and free information that please your tastes with
the numerous windows and unix aimed documentations and howtos.

I hope you will come soon to discuss your discovering and problems about
this setup ;)


Best Regards,


Jerome Walter
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