From: John Beckett 

Thees Peereboom  wrote in message
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> 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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