Hello

I was thinking about routing all my customers via pptp tunnels back to the office

When I setup their accounts do I choose 192.168.0.1(example) for the local address and 192.168.0.2, 192.168.0.3, 192.168.0.4 etc etc for each client account remote address?

What subnet does that put them on, will broadcast be a problem (500 users)

Thanks

Hey,

You can use 192.168.0.1 as a Local Address,
and create an Ip Pool with ranges 192.168.0.2 - 192.168.2.254.
That should give you approximately 760 IPs to use,
under subnet mask 255.255.0.0. (Is that netmask value of /16? Someone correct me!)

A nifty advantage for using statically assigned IP addresses to each user, is that if they have some services/servers running inside their network, then it's easy to forward vertain ports to those addresses/clients. Advantage of the IP Pool is that all gets done automatically, and you don't have to make IP entries for 500 users individually.

Hope that sheds some light.
-Krige

That's neat, Thanks

Will a subnet that big cuase problems (Broadcast's etc)?
Thanks Again

Not in my experience...

dont forget that with PPP there is no broadcast or subnet, its (P)oint to (P)oint (P)rotocol. . . so your gateway doesnt even have to be on the same subnet.

Is that the same with L2TP?

I was thinking of choosing L2tp after much reading

yes, any point to points are the same. pptp, l2tp, ipip, etc.