VPN

[mikeleahy]

can you establish a permanent vpn connection between two cisco routers the same way you can do it using sonic walls

 

[kbing]

Yes you can setup an IPsec tunnel between two cisco routers. You can set it up to stay up 100% of the time or it can establish the tunnel only when interesting traffic is present and then it turns off after period of inactivity.

I don't know anything about sonicwalls - except that I replaced our previous administrator's with Cisco IOS/FW routers ;-)

 

[mikeleahy]

thanks. im after joining a company that does a lot of cisco installations. do you know any site that i could use to get the best practices for designing a cisco network i.e. 2 routers, failover internet connections etc

 

[kbing]

take a look at

http://www.cisco.com

and navigate to the support / documentation section.

There is a ton of examples on how to configure VPN's from rtr-rtr, rtr-pix, etc....