two VPNs

[stevech]

At place A I need to put a subnet into a VPN to tunnel it to place B.
and at place A there are certain devices that need to be VPN connected to place C. The two categories of devices at place A could be in different subnets/VLANs if need be.

Can windows home premium terminate a VPN connection from the WAN? Or must place B and C have VPN appliances?

At place A, is there a VPN appliance that can create two VPN connections, to place B and C? Or must this be two VPN appliance boxes?

Thanks in advance; I'm VPN illiterate.

 

[thiggins]

Can windows home premium terminate a VPN connection from the WAN? Or must place B and C have VPN appliances?

The Win 7 client supports PPTP and IPsec/L2TP (not plain IPsec).

At place A, is there a VPN appliance that can create two VPN connections, to place B and C? Or must this be two VPN appliance boxes?

Any VPN-enabled router can support multiple tunnels. If you want to connect an entire LAN, you'll need VPN routers/endpoints at both ends. Connecting to a single client only requires that the router on the far end properly pass through the protocol you are using.

 

[stevech]

The Win 7 client supports PPTP and IPsec/L2TP (not plain IPsec).

Any VPN-enabled router can support multiple tunnels. If you want to connect an entire LAN, you'll need VPN routers/endpoints at both ends. Connecting to a single client only requires that the router on the far end properly pass through the protocol you are using.

Thanks... In my scenario, it's M2M without PCs or people involved in this traffic. So from what you said, a VPN appliance is needed at each end. I'm wondering if one appliance at the source can create two tunnels, one going to place B and one to place C? Or are separate VPN appliances needed?

I also wonder if GRE tunnels would be better - but not sure what low cost router/appliance has this (GRE was a Cisco thing but I think many vendors do GRE now).