Setting up a VPN

Hi,

I'm trying to setup a VPN between my house and my office. I'm not particularly familar with VPNs, I just have rough idea of how they work. Heres my setup:

Workstation at office-connected to a DSL Router/Modem.

Home: Computer hooked up to FiOS Modem.

I want to setup a VPN that I can remotely log into from my home computer. What device should I get? Can I use a client installed on my home computer to log into it?

Thanks,

Scott

 

Pc Anywhere & Remotley Anywhere both have remote & encryption.
But if you want a VPN Hamachi was the easiest to setup & free, but they've been bought by Log Me In, they still have a free service.

https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/vpn.asp
or Google OpenVPN...

 

hamachi is a software VPN correct? I'm looking more at a hardware site to site VPN, tunneling a Windows XP computer to another Windows XP computer over the internet. I have no idea what hardware/software is required to do this. Can any body help?

 

Go out and get 2 linksys vpn routers then.
Or take 2 old pcs and run IPCOP
"IPCop can easily establish VPNs between other IPCop servers. IPCop can also inter-operate with just about any VPN product that supports IPSec and standard encryption technologies such as 3DES. "

 

What do I do once I have the two Linksys VPN Routers?

 

More specific question: So I have the two VPN Linksys Routers. They are both behind modems, so would I bridge the modems and then configure the routers to tunnel between themselves?

I'm thinking conceptionally it would work like this: (arrows drawn to show data going from computer 1 to computer 2.)

Computer1-->VPN Router-->Bridged FIOS-->

Internet-->

-->Bridged DSL-->VPN Router-->Computer2

Thats right correct?

I was thinking of using the LINKSYS BEFSX41 for my routers...

 

DL this zip it may help
http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/showthread.php?t=31944

 

Much thanks for all your help. I'm going to use DYNDNS so I can have a static IP on both ends.

Heres the the plan>>

Computer w/DYNDNS installed-->VPN Router-->Bridged Modem-->


TCP/IP/Internet


<--Bridged Modem<--VPN Router<--Computer with DYNDNS installed

And then configure the VPNs using the webbased client etc. as described on the Linksys website.

Will this work?

Thanks again!