Multiple VPN Connections?

Iztok Umek iztok at si-con.com
Tue Feb 8 07:01:53 EST 2005


> I am running a Apache-Tomcat web server in on a Window host in a
> production environment.  I want to run multiple instances of a web
> application that needs to connect to multiple remote database servers, to
> perform real-time query and update, over VPN connections.  Is it feasible
> and practical to maintain multiple VPN connections?

You can run as many VPN connections as you want. Well practically there is 
this limitation of limited IP numbers, but hey, who is complaining ;)

I would suggest however to:

1. Look into running the app on Linux.
2. Use SSH tunnel.

If you can't do that and you have to go with VPN I assume you are talking 
something like IPSec and not something like PPTP?

In case of VPN I would sugest you do limit the encryption domains to the 
minimum and use public IP space for it as well. This will ensure you don't 
end up with two incompatible encryption domains if you are running private 
IP address space.

Sincerely,
      Iztok 



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