David Thanks for your ideas. I'd not thought of buying an internal PCI adsl modem instead of a router/modem. > Just out of curiosity, why don't you put an IP-Cop supported > NIC in your firewall and do away with the router? Because (at work) the router is built in to the ADSL modem (or vice versa). Its a solwise sar110 at work and I might end up with a netgear DG834 at home. (or did you mean an internal ADSL modem supported by ipcop? That would at least reduce the plug count but are there any disadvantages to using IP cop as the router apart from not having the fall back option of plugging the other PCs directly into the router/modem and the router modem probably using less power and making less noise). Firewalls at home and at work are stand alone IPCOP machines. I can't work out from the IPCOP manual if this could give me lan to lan vpn (ie ipcop will join the lans through a vpn or if I need extra stuff on the servers/pcs on each lan as well to create the vpn. > That way, you could do direct VPN > to VPN without having to worry about the router. You may want to > investigate VPN passthrough on the router. Would the router at home not just pass on the packet to the router at work if I set up a static route between the two? (Testing is really slow as I only have one internet conenction at each end and can only be in one place at a time so I'm hoping getting the right answer off the list will help speed things up!) > Personally, I'd forget about the router completely... Just my 2p It would save some pennies (BTW, thanks for your 2p I'll put it towards whatever solution I end up going for) Chris Johnson (No not that one, the other one!) (running SUSE 9, 512MB PIII 600 (ish)) --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.742 / Virus Database: 495 - Release Date: 19/08/2004
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