Re: Looking for a PVN-only server to put behind the firewll

[Myles_Keough () corpsoft com]

Have you looked into MS IIS?  It sounds like you're a MS shop and if that's the
case IIS would be a great fit.





"Steven W. Engle" <sengle () dhtinc com> on 10/02/99 02:34:36 PM

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 Subject: Looking for a PVN-only server to put behind the     
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Looking for recommendations for a private virtual network "server"
(95/98/NT software or "network appliance") to place on the internal
network side of a firewall.

Objective is to have external/Internet users, via software on their
Win 95/98/NT laptop / PC and their standard connection to the
Internet, to be able to mount shares being made available by the
corporate NT server on the internal network. The firewall would allow
external connections to tunnel through it to the internal VPN server.
The VPN server would handle authentication, data encryption /
decryption, addressing / routing, etc.

The way I see it, the remote user's PC/Laptop would appear as a node
on the internal network and would have access to all devices on the
internal network.

So far all the solutions I have found are associated with full blow
firewalls - this is not an option due to cost and skill constraints
on part of the end user organization. All that is needed is a
PVN-only solution with maintenance limited to add/deleting users and
delivering software to remote end users.

BTW: The "firewall" is a NetGear RH348 ISDN Router with Dynamic NAT
turned on. It supports tunneling one external IP address (the
router's) to an internal network IP address.

Thanx!
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Diversified High Technologies, Inc.        Fax: (281) 333-9087
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