Re: VPN connection using ISA Server 2000

  • From: "Marrow K.L. Yung" <marrow.yung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:14:43 +0800

I think what you mean is even I have a 10Mbps/10Mbps connection and VPN 
overhead still present. I agree with that. It means if my firewall has horse 
power to handle it and I use the NIC which can offload the IPSec overhead from 
the CPU and use the VPN bypass function in the router, I can create as much as 
VPN connection as my ISA Server 2000 can handle.

I mean really look for as much as VPN connection as possible solution. What do 
you suggest? keep adding VPN router if more VPN connection need ? or really 
depends on the power of the hardware ISA Server 2000 installed and the Intel 
10/100 Pro S Server adapter. Just tell me what you think as the most expensive 
solution in my mind now is a LinkSys VPN router which can handle 70 VPN 
connection at the same time and link up VPN routers if more than 70+ is need.



Very best regards,

Marrow Yung.




-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Harrison [mailto:jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 6:09 AM
To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
Subject: [isalist] Re: VPN connection using ISA Server 2000


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No one will ever acheive "unlimited" VPN connections; that's what is called 
"infinite".
You will always be limited by (in this order):
1. Internet Bandwidth - the shopkeeper is right; you can only support the 
maximum traffic of the smallest pipe.  In this case, it's
your Internet connection.
2. CPU speed - Even with a NIC or co-processor board to offload the encryption 
duties, there is still an upper limit to the number
of encryption calculations per second that can be achieved

Take a read here for more information regarding this NIC and IPSec:
http://www.intel.com/support/network/adapter/faq.htm

 Jim Harrison
 MCP(NT4, W2K), A+, Network+, PCG
 http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver
 http://isaserver.org/Jim_Harrison
 http://isatools.org

 Read the help, books and articles!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marrow K.L. Yung" <marrow.yung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 08:58
Subject: [isalist] VPN connection using ISA Server 2000


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I am looking for a VPN unlimited connection solution, I see that all the VPN 
broadband router can only support maximum 70 VPN
Connections in the router level. However, I need the unlimited one for my own 
company. What I am thinking is, I buy a Intel 10/100
Pro S Server Adapter , which can support hardware IPSec in the NIC card itself( 
the spec. in intel says that, that's why it is
Server NIC , not desktop NIC), then I use the VPN function in the ISA Server 
2000 to create VPN connection for all of my client. In
the router level I will only let the router enable the VPN bypass function , 
which is a common function in all router in Hong Kong.

What do you think about my VPN unlimited solution? The pricing of this 
combination will only cost 100-200 more Hong Kong dollar when
compare with using VPN router. Which is very good if I need more than 70 VPN 
connections.

the shop keeper tell me it is impossible to have unlimited VPN connection (I 
think he mean in the router level), he say even it can,
the bandwidth for 70+ VPN connection can't handled by broadband connection. Is 
that true ?  I will have a broadband connection of
10Mbps upstream 10Mbps downstream. It still not enough ? I am not going to 
assume they all connnect at the same time (through you
can say why I don't use VPN router if I don't assume it will handle all at the 
same time, but I want to make it unlimited in the
lowest price, the hightest price is I link up all VPN router to make it support 
more than 70 VPN Connections if one VPN router is
over limited).


Very best regards,

Marrow Yung.





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