Re: OT - VPN help

["M.I. Deen" <deen () slt lk>]

Dear Stephen,

I was happy that some stuff on VPN had come my way on this mailing list.
Assuming that you have a Cisco based network, do we infact need a Cisco
5008/or 3080 at each POP where the VPN's terminate. 

What is the minimum set of Cisco boxes you need to get a basic VPN/Dial VPN
going, which obviously could be scaled later on. Cisco docs always talk
about 7200 as a forwarding router. 

Deen
Sri Lanka Telecom



At 08:37 AM 1/9/01 -0500, you wrote:
> On  8 Jan, Stephen Burd wrote:
> > Can someone who knows VPN (really well) give me a hand with a little
project I'm
> > working on please?
> >
> > The question is this: Can a customer with two office locations (several
states
> > away from each other) do VPN via SDSL and ISDN?  I have been told those two
> > services cannot work together and it makes no sense to me why not.
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> I think you need to file all further information from whomever fed you
> that line of tripe in the circular file.  A VPN can run over any type
> of circuit, or even no physical circuit at all.  Have a look at the new
> Cisco IPSec stuff, I'm currently running VPNs to sites connected via
> ISDN, dial-up, T1, Frame-Relay E1, SDSL, and Cablemodem.  It's a lot
> easier if you have statically assigned IP addresses, but not even that
> is a requirement.
>
> Jeremiah
>
> > -Stephen
> >
> >
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