Re: Can IPSec connect 2 VPN Clients or is ALWAYS an IPSec server needed ?

From: Colin McKinnon (colin.thisisnotmysurname_at_ntlworld.deletemeunlessURaBot.com)
Date: 08/01/05 

Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 22:19:01 GMT

Peter Meister spilled the following:

> As the subject already asked: Do I always need an IPSec server to
> establish an IPsec connection or is something like an ad-hoc (similar to
> WLAN) IP-sec connection between two clients possible?
>

Erm, I think you've got hold of the wrong end of the stick. If two computers
are talking via a network then (almost always) one is acting as the server
and the other as the client. So any machine configured for IPSEC is capable
of acting as both a client and a server.

HTH

C.

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