I am looking for a free/cheep vpn server for the LAN in our community. It seems to me that openVPN would fit the bill, but there are a few questions that I would like to ask before spending a great deal of time trying to set it up Our setup is a bit more complex than most, I would say. All traffic to the outside wall passes through our firewall (made by Juniper), so we have one leg facing outwards. We have another leg for our web servers (dmz) and several internal legs for different parts of our network eg one for homes, one for offices and one for a factory. I am interested in forming a vpn with the offices section. WWW FIREWALL | DMZ [ fixed ip] | Homes [ dhcp ] | Offices [ fixed ip ] | Factories [ fixed ip ] I also have at my command an array of external IP addresses and can use one of these to connect directly through the fire wall (with/without a password) to any machine on the LAN. As the administrator, I envisage being able to log into the LAN from anywhere outside the LAN via an IP address or URL like vpn.mycompany.com, receive an ip in the range of the offices and then, to all intents & purposes be part of the network. I have other workers, who I would like to be able to connect up and only have limited services eg being able to connect up to their account on the domain server or map a certain directory on a certain computer. I prefer installing the vpn 'server' using Linux (preferably Slackware), but most of my clients are windows machines. I have looked briefly at openVPN, but cant find a tutorial that I can follow easily - mainly the assume you know what you are doing & understand the terminology. Also, I haven't found any that explains the physical setup needed, for instance, where do I place the server in the above diagram? What hardware do I need? What ports do I need open in the firewall? I dont envisage heavy traffic & only a few clients connected at the same time. If anyone can help me or just point me in the right direction, I would be most grateful. Arieh