VPN story
As you've probably heard from my previous rantings, I'm currrently using W2K8 Enterprise on my laptop. Well, it's feature-rich and pretty stable (comparing to Vista) but of course there are plenty of hiccups. Running on a brand new 64bit OS means that plenty of drivers and software simply doesn't work well, and here's my VPN story.
Recently sent to Australia, Melbourne, to assist in a project. Boy, internet bandwidth here is limited, precious and expensive. I was trying to establish a vpn connection back to my office in Singapore but was simply astonished to find the lack of 64bit Vista/Win2k8 VPN client from major vendors (** hint hint **). Well, working within limits (bandwidth limitation + lack of VPN client support) is certainly what we're trained to do in my company, so here's what I did.
1) RDP to my server @home running W2K8
2) Setup a WinXP VM on my Hyper-V
3) Install VPN client and create a tunnel to my office network resources
Well, what can I say?