howard said:
Have hardware VPN between two locations for internet phone connection using
two firewall/VPN routers. Computers at each site sit behind their respective
firewalls. Can I add a connection to my remote XP system for access to the
main office Win 2k domain?
You don't need a "connection". It isn't that complex. A VPN link, by nature
and by definition, is already part of your private LAN. Without knowing
more about your LAN's design, I'd say all you need is the proper Static
Route to be able to cross the VPN link.
If you have a regular LAN Router (not an Internet NAT Device) that would
already be all the machine's Default Gateway, then you'd simply add a Static
Route to the LAN Router so that it knows that anything destined for the
remote LAN is to use the VPN Device as the "gateway". If you run a single
subnet, then the Static Route *might* be able to work from your Internet
Sharing Device, assuming it is the Default Gateway of all the machines and
that it can accept Static Routes. If that doesn't work, then your last
option is to add the Static route to every desktop machine individually.
The same process most likely will have to be repeated on the other remote
LAN.
