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QUESTION POSED ON: 09 January 2007
How can I help a customer establish peer-to-peer wireless file transfers over a VPN?

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If this is with respect to a wireless LAN, no VPN is necessary, since there's no public network involved. Just use a peer mode connection and make sure security (WPA at a minimum) is enabled. If this is over a wide-area connection, it would be hard to recommend such a solution -- it's just too complex. It would be better to set up a server for the VPN and have all of the peers relay through there. This can easily be done with an appropriate router.

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