In my office, we are working off one IP address currently, and this lets us connect a single computer to one of our client's VPNs, which effectively locks out multiple people from working with that client (1 VPN connection per IP). Is there a particular way via some software or service that will allow us to 'fake' an outgoing IP so we can make multiple connections? We are using Windows 7, if that helps. I've heard of systems like Tor, but I'm not really sure how that can be applied to my situation. Thanks!
Windows – Multiple VPN Connections, One IP
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1) This is an IPSEC VPN, although a slightly proprietary cisco version. They can be site to site, or user to site.
2) You can use active directory for authentication, as well as many other sources.
3) If by multiple servers you mean multiple vpn servers as different end points then yes.
4) There are vpn modules available for these units, whether you can use them depends on the load you expect, but for less than a 50 simultaneous users you won't experience much of an issue, and in fact the load they can route is probably much higher. So VPN can generate a lot of load, depends on what your users are doing. I don't know what IOS version you would need to run, try to run the latest you can.
5) I believe licensing is done by simultaneous user -- plus additional incurred cost for hardware modules.
6) Cisco can support web vpn.
6) Cisco vpn is a nice standard solution, especially for Windows based remote workers. However there are a number of lower cost alternatives that implement more generic ipsec and may be appropriate like Sonicwall. Also Juniper makes some decent vpn gear. If you want to go the open source route check out openvpn, probably my favorite vpn implementation anywhere but you need to do some digging to get it working for remote workers and it may not be applicable in your situation.
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Best Answer
One thing you can try is, establish the VPN connection at the router level, and it should handle all the connections for you.
If you are using a cheap router that doesn't allow VPN connections (not VPN passthrough), another potential cheap/free solution would be to update your router's firmware if possible to unlock features it may be capable of.
http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index <-- Check if your router is compatible