Quick Gateway-to-Gateway VPN Question

[LL Deja]

I've established a Client to Server VPN connection using the RAS on a
Win2000 Server. If I wanted to establish a Gateway-to-Gateway
(Site-to-Site) connection with 2 offices, is it simply a matter of
making 2 client-to-server connections? (As in Office1 (VPN client) to
Office2 (VPN server) plus Office2 (VPN client) to Office1 (VPN
Server)).

Or is it a matter of a setting in the VPN server which automatically
allows gateway to gateway once a client-to-server connection is
established?

TIA.

 

[Bill Grant]

You only need one connection, but it needs to be set up between the RRAS
servers. Look in help for LAN-to-LAN or router to router VPN.

Briefly, the connection is established between demand-dial interfaces on
the servers, and routes are linked to these interfaces to route traffic
between the sites. A normal client-server connection can't handle it,
because only a host route is established back to the caller (or client)
machine.