Hello all, I dont know whether it is the right place but I have some questions regarding traditional VPNs. 1. If a company have many branch offices located at different cities. Then how usually they enable the computers at their brance offices to be part of a sing virtual private network? I assume that PCs at office A, when wants to connect to VPN, will connect with server A (located at office A) and PCs at office B, when wants to connect to VPN, will connect with server B (located at office B). While server A and B will be connected with each other via some lease line. 2. Can the connection between server A and server B be any VPN connection other than lease line? 3. How the data will be routed between computers in both the offices for the following two scenarios. a) PC1 at office A sends something to PC2 at office A (in the same office)? Whether the data will go directly from PC1 to PC2 or PC1 -> Server A -> PC2? b) PC1 at office A sends something to PC3 at office B? Thanks, Arsalan
Generally vpn mean secure communication over internet, that mean that you have to have VPN client on your computer ( at home ) and you can talk to VPN server ( at work ). Arkady "Arsalan Ahmad" wrote in message news:BF4F61FB-AAFC-453A-99F2-09BACA853659@microsoft.com... > Hello all, > > I dont know whether it is the right place but I have some questions > regarding traditional VPNs. > > 1. If a company have many branch offices located at different cities. Then > how usually they enable the computers at their brance offices to be part > of a sing virtual private network? I assume that PCs at office A, when > wants to connect to VPN, will connect with server A (located at office A) > and PCs at office B, when wants to connect to VPN, will connect with > server B (located at office B). While server A and B will be connected > with each other via some lease line. > > 2. Can the connection between server A and server B be any VPN connection > other than lease line? > > 3. How the data will be routed between computers in both the offices for > the following two scenarios. > > a) PC1 at office A sends something to PC2 at office A (in the same > office)? Whether the data will go directly from PC1 to PC2 or PC1 -> > Server A -> PC2? > > b) PC1 at office A sends something to PC3 at office B? > > Thanks, > > Arsalan
