From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 12 17:23:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 6E96D16A403 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:23:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from smtpout.eastlink.ca (smtpout.eastlink.ca [24.222.0.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEB4743D46 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:23:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from ip03.eastlink.ca ([24.222.10.15]) by mta01.eastlink.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.03 (built Sep 22 2005)) with ESMTP id <0IXM00I3NDMSDFV1@mta01.eastlink.ca> for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:23:16 -0300 (ADT) Received: from blk-224-199-230.eastlink.ca (HELO [192.168.0.103]) ([24.224.199.230]) by ip03.eastlink.ca with ESMTP; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:22:26 -0300 Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:21:23 -0300 From: Duane Whitty In-reply-to: To: Marwan Sultan Message-id: <443D3713.2090102@greenmeadow.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAA+k= References: User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060309) Cc: questions@freebsd.org 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 17:23:11 -0000 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? > > Thank you for your support. > Marwn Sultan. > Hi, I have recently configured a simple VPN to connect mobile users to a central office. With this experience behind me, my advice to you is to get a professional in your local area to do this for you. This may cost you a little more upfront but in the long run it will save you time, money, and a lot of headaches. From your question I believe it will take you a long time to accomplish what you want, you will spend money on equip- ment that you either don't need or doesn't do the job adequately if at all. And in the end you will have a configuration you may not be really satisfied with in terms of security and performance. I don't mean to sound unkind here or overly negative about what you can accomplish on your own given the time and money. But there are a lot of issues to take into consideration which you may not think are important now or which you may not even know exist that will have a big impact on what you need to do. I wish you the best of luck and I also want to assure you that what you want to do has been done many times and a professional should have no problems doing this for you. If he appears unsure of how to proceed then he probably hasn't done it before and is figuring it out as he goes. Sincerely, Duane Whitty -- duane@greenmeadow.ca