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Satellite & VPNs?

hello all

can someone give me the definitive answer on whether I can use a VPN over Satellite Broadband? I'm getting conflicting answers, BT say no, but other ISPs say yes. Are they just after business or is it true?
I would also like to run Netmeeting/PC Anywhere through the VPN.
TIA
 
Hi
Thanks for the swift reply.
TIA means thanks in advance by the way :)

Can you tell me your Satellite provider? Thanks

BabyNSX
 
Vpn

Definate anwser, Yes, generally best results PPTP AND IPSEC even Citrex will work, are you looking at sta as a businesss or residential solution??
 
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This is for colleagues to work from home. I'm the network admin and I have a VPN box (currently Intel/Shiva, soon to be Cisco concentrator) installed at work. Users VPN tunnel (currently SST, when Cisco is up it will be IPSec) from home using ADSL/Cable Internet and Netmeeting to their work PCs to work from home. Some users live out in the middle of nowhere and the only broadband option is Satelllite. However, on the BT documentation it clearly states that VPN software and remote control (Netmeting, PC Anywhere etc) will NOT work. I called them and they explained that it's because of the delay and their protocol wouldn't work, and it was not supported. It's a big outlay (3 users) so I wanted to check if anyone had experience of this. Anyone actually used a VPN over satellite?
Many thanks
 
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I Can provide you reference sites that are a using Vpn over satellite, we will give you 100% support of a cisco vpn. email me with the requirements of what you are looking for if you like m.peachey@aramiska.net

in most cases Satellite can atract some govt funding to help with the sometimes prohibitive cost.

Stan
 
On PlanetSky supported many types of VPN:

For all connections available - PPTP type of VPN with 2 options
1)Your connection goes completely over satellite, it's good if you dont want any incoming terresterial traffic.
2)Control VPN connections comes over terresterial line, and data flow incoming goes over satellite.

PPTP VPN supported on Windows versions start from Win 95 OSR, and also Linux, FreeBSD.

For corporate accounts:
GRE or(and) IPIP VPN - supported by FreeBSD, Linux, Cisco.
CIPE VPN - supported by Linux.
 
Aramiska VPN

Types of VPN Supported


If you have a requirement to reach a server on your local LAN, you can use a VPN connection to tunnel through the Aramiska Arc. We support the following protocols:

- PPTP: TCP port 1723 and protocol 47 (GRE)
- IPSec over UDP: port 500 and protocol 50 (ESP)

For IPSec connection there is one limitation: IPSec AH cannot be used.
VPN solutions that require AH (i.e. WatchGuard for certain configurations) or any devices that need additional ports to be openend will not work.

The Aramiska Arc can very easily be configured to forward incoming VPN connections a VPN server on your local LAN.

Both Windows 2000 and Windows XP (all versions) have simple wizards to setup a machine to accept incoming VPN connections. All Windows versions starting from Windows 98 have easy-to-use wizards to setup clients for a VPN connection.


see http://care.aramiska.net
 
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I would go along with BT. You may be able to set a VPN up over a Satellite conection but I doubt that it would be really usable , particularly with Net Meeting. The real killer is the latency.
It would probably be best to see if you can find someone using a VPN over satellite & to see whether you would regard it as being usable.

BabyNSX said:
hello all

can someone give me the definitive answer on whether I can use a VPN over Satellite Broadband? I'm getting conflicting answers, BT say no, but other ISPs say yes. Are they just after business or is it true?
I would also like to run Netmeeting/PC Anywhere through the VPN.
TIA
 
Wouldn't recommend the Microsoft VPN clients fudskie, they have a habit of filling the pipe with overhead cr*p even if there is no data running across the VPN tunnel.

Patesy
 
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