From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 12 13:33:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C73D16A403 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:33:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4FB743D48 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:33:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from [10.3.4.9] (jn@c-71-226-110-35.hsd1.sc.comcast.net [71.226.110.35]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k3CDWpVP075342; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:33:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:31:16 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: In-Reply-To: X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604120931.16779.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88, clamav-milter version 0.87 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Marwan Sultan Subject: Re: WAN setup help. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:33:33 -0000 On Wednesday 12 April 2006 03:08, Marwan Sultan wrote: > Hello Gurus, > > I have a Head Office, and have 2 Restaurants in diffrent areas, > I have been told that i can link them all together, WAN. them. > > Can please someone explain to me how to do that? all to be as a one > network. > > I understand that I need router in each branch, including the HQ but, > what is the router? > can FreeBSD configured to be this router? > how to link all of them Together? There are many ways to do this, some that include using FreeBSD and even more that don't. I personally find that OpenVPN is easy to set up and configure and works quite well. It will run on FreeBSD, Windows, or other operating systems. It makes the most sense to use it if you already have PC's acting as routers in each location. Otherwise, it will likely be less expensive (both up-front and in the long run (power savings, etc) to buy standalone devices capable of creating VPN links. If you decide on a specific plan that involves FreeBSD, feel free to ask for more help getting it going. JN