Re: RE: Communicate from a laptop -- PCTECH

Hi Walden,

>  So what I'm proposing is put
> the wireless people on their own subnet and bring up a VPN connection to
> the "real" subnet. This way they can access "protected" resources over
> the VPN and still be wireless. 
I'm not following how to accomplish this.  Maybe you have more 
resources than I am thinking about.  If a person uses a SonicWall 
TZW the Wireless is on a different subnet than the lan.  But of 
course it comes with a VPN for the wireless.  If a person uses any 
other wireless router they only allow you to have one subnet on the 
router.  (At least the ones I have been working with)
I don't  understand this even if you have one router for wireless and 
one  router for a Lan.  The Lan router would have to be able to 
accept more than one subnet.  If you are talking about a very 
expensive router I could understand this.  Do you know of routers 
under $150 that can do this?   I'd love to learn more details of what 
you are proposing. 

> Now, as for the internet, you could either force them to come over the
> VPN and then out through the same interface as the hardwired people, or
> you could provide another route to the internet for the wireless people.
It makes sense.  I just don't know of what hardware/software is 
required to accomplish this.
 
> Make sense, or did I miss something?
> 
> -Walden
Thank you,

Gary Kuznitz

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Kuznitz [mailto:docfxit@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 16 March, 2005 15:09
> To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> Cc: Walden H. Leverich
> Subject: RE: Communicate from a laptop
> 
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> Hi Walden,
> 
> Thanks for your input.  My iimmediate need is to protect the wireless 
> transmission in the office.  I can easily setup a VPN tunnel between 
> the laptop --> over wireless --> to a remote office.   Which covers 
> the wireless part easily.  The problem is when I need to surf the 
> internet to other locations. Like when I need to transmit to other 
> people that don't have VPN setup.  At these times I'd like to have 
> the wireless protected.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Gary Kuznitz
> 
> > Gary,
> > 
> > We use W2K as our VPN server (no surprise there, right? <G>) so what
> we
> > did in this situation was deploy a second subnet for all wireless
> > access. That subnet, while it has a private IP range (10.100.12.x) is
> > still considered by us to be a public network, so there's no direct
> > connect between the wireless subnet and our internal network. However,
> > the VPN server is connected to that subnet. So when you're wireless
> you
> > need to bring up a VPN connection just as if you were anywhere on the
> > internet, and the connection is the same one you'd bring up from home
> --
> > into the same VPN server you'd access from home. 
> > 
> > What I'm getting at is, do you need a separate VPN server for the
> > wireless stuff, or can you setup your current VPN server to handle
> > another subnet?
> > 
> > -Walden
> > 
> > 
> > ------------
> > Walden H Leverich III
> > President & CEO
> > Tech Software
> > (516) 627-3800 x11
> > WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > http://www.TechSoftInc.com
> > 
> > Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
> > (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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