FOFC Tech Team - Network Administrators - VPN question

[Toddzilla]

My company is opening a new office and I have been tasked with somehow getting both offices on the same VPN.

Right now, there is just the one office (HQ) and we have a SonicWall that hosts our VPN (with wioreless access). When remote connections are made, they come into HQ and establish the VPN connection. All of the servers are at HQ right now.

The bosses want to move all of the hardware to the new office, including the SonicWall. Everybody at the new office will be plugged into or wirelessly connected to the main network. However, they also want the HQ network to remain perpetually connected to the VPN - anyone who connects to the HQ subnet (wirelessly or hardwired) will automatically be connected to the VPN and be on the main network.

Unfortunately, asking the people at HQ to connect to first get on the HQ subnet and then establish a VPN connection to the office is NOT an option - they need to automatically be connected to the main network when they sonnect to the HQ subnet.

How?

[jeff061]

Buy a 2nd Sonicwall firewall(technically doesn't have to be Sonicwall), so you have one at each site, and configure a VPN tunnel between the external interfaces on each.

Sonicwalls, if I remember correctly, are pretty damned user friendly. Probably has a wizard to walk you through the config.