Graham J wrote:

"hari baskar" wrote in message
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A friend has a few PCs at home (ADSL, dynamic IP) and a
number of others at his shop (ADSL, fixed IP) and wants
to be able to link the two

Yes, I know that there's OpenVPN (though not sure it is
ideal - he'd like to be able to switch PCs off, but NAS
box left on in shop, and access that from home, so that
would not be suitable for running OpenVPN).

If the PCs are off he might as well take the NAS box home! But seriously, if
he's lucky he'll be able to terminate OpenVPN on the NAS box itself, eg
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowT...pOpenVPNServer

There are other more expensive routers - Cisco, for example. But nothing
cheaper than a Vigor will implement what you want. Look up the V2820 ...

Others to consider include Billion 7402x [has 3G support as a bonus] and
Zyxel P661. A wildcard is the Zoom 4401AF [aka AP+4]: no DSL interface, but
it's only £30 and has a hardware crypto chip so VPN performance should be
reasonable.

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