From: Thees Peereboom 

John,

Thanks a lot for your helpful answer. I'll pass it on.

- Thees Peereboom

On Sat, 05 Apr 2003 09:12:27 GMT, John Beckett
 wrote:

>Thees Peereboom  wrote in message
>news::
>> A friend has the following problem: His company has an office in A
>> with about 20 workstations and a W2K server which is also PDC adn
>> DNSserver. The workstations are w98. ...
>
>What device provides the VPN service? Like Rich, I would suspect there is
>a configuration problem or inherent limit if the box is a VPN gadget.
>
>Using W2k techniques, you would have a RRAS (routing and remote access
>service) server provide VPN.
>
>If you configured RRAS for, say, 20 VPN clients, it would (by default) get
>21 IP addresses from the local DHCP server. The first of these would be
>for the RRAS VPN connection. The other 20 would be for the VPN clients.
>The DHCP server would show the 21 leases with an icon that includes a
>phone.
>
>When a client connected, RRAS would provide the next already-obtained IP
>to the client as part of the PPP negotiation. The effect would be that all
>clients appear to be on the same subnet as the RRAS server.
>
>What I am less clear on is how you would do the above with dedicated VPN
>boxes.
>
>The logon delay is almost certainly due to timeouts by the client as it
>tries (stupidly) to use DNS to locate the domain controller. This will
>only work if the user logs on while selecting the "use VPN"
logon option
>(I forget the wording for this, perhaps "use dial-up").
>
>John

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