On Thursday 20 April 2006 11:56, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > The company I work for just opened a new office a blocks down the > street (read: 1.5 miles.) We have a dual T1 at our main location, and a > single T1 at the second location. This was discussed and planned months > ago, each T1 goes to our ISP, separate subnets, no connection between > our offices. > > Of course, today I'm presented with the question: what would it take > to link the two offices together? Would've been so nice to have known > this BEFORE we installed the second T1 as I would've done it differently > (more of a peer-to-peer link between the buildings.) > > Anyway, so the setup as it stands is, T1 here and T1 there. Each > with their own subnet (completely different range as well.) Both > locations have a Fedora machine with iptables acting as a firewall for > the internal networks. In order for us to transfer data from one > location to the other, the information is essentially being dumped onto > the big ole Internet and sent out (or received at the other end.) What > they want to know now is if there's anyway to link the locations > together and possibly speed up the transfer of data, just between the > locations (while still retaining the setup as it stands right now, > without incurring the cost of yet another link, just between the > buildings.) > > Is this even a feasible thing to do, at this point in the game? And > if so, I'm open for suggestions. If the two link has Public IP, you can create a VPN server, thus allowing a secure tunnel through the internet for those locations. However I haven't tried it. Pls research more for VPN. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 15:38:18 up 7:24, 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org
