Help! I am trying to find some way of configuring VPN on our school system, we have a number of laptops running NT4 workstation, each with internet access via freeserve or similar. The school has a 2mb Broadband connection provided by EMBC, which I know is NAT translated, I have some external (internet) IP addresses which are mapped by EMBC to our internal IP addresses, so our gateway machine has an external address of 10.4.172.250 but is accessible by a real ip address on the internet and has an external DNS entry. I have (tried) reading the VPN howto etc but have got lost in what will do what! what I need to find out is :- What do I need to install on a gateway machine, currently running freesco, but looking at Ipcop at the moment. What do I have to do at the client end (the simpler the better....) Which ports do I need to ask EMBC to open on their firewall for all this to work! Thanks, I know this is a lot to ask! Rob Keeling Network Manager Queen Elizabeth`s Grammar School Ashbourne