Inbound connection to Win XP

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How many simultaneous inbound (VPN) connections can Windows XP Pro accept?
And how many simultaneous inbound (VPN) connections can Windows 2003 Server
accept?
 
Desert said:
How many simultaneous inbound (VPN) connections can Windows XP Pro
accept? And how many simultaneous inbound (VPN) connections can
Windows 2003 Server accept?
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Indirectly answering your question:

10 concurrent network connections to Windows XP Professional.
5 concurrent network connections to Windows XP Home edition.

For Windows Server 2003 - ask yourself what your licensing/network and
hardware limitations are.
 
No, not network connections. Inbound (VPN) connections. How many inbound VPN
connections will Win XP Pro support?
 
Desert said:
How many simultaneous inbound (VPN) connections can Windows XP Pro
accept? And how many simultaneous inbound (VPN) connections can
Windows 2003 Server accept?
Click to expand...

Shenan said:
Indirectly answering your question:

10 concurrent network connections to Windows XP Professional.
5 concurrent network connections to Windows XP Home edition.

For Windows Server 2003 - ask yourself what your licensing/network
and hardware limitations are.
Click to expand...

Desert said:
No, not network connections. Inbound (VPN) connections. How many
inbound VPN connections will Win XP Pro support?
Click to expand...

How about this...
Less than or equal to the number of concurrent network connections...
 
I don't think that's correct. Going back to my Windows 2000 training, Windows
2000 Professional could support a maximum of one inbound (VPN) connection,
while Windows 2000 server could support up to 256 concurrent inbound (VPN)
connections. I have to believe that Windows XP Pro also is capable of
supporting only one inbound connection because I cannot logon more than one
time concurrently. But I just need to make sure my logic and understanding
are correct before I tell my client we need to upgrade the server to Windows
Server 2003.
 
Desert said:
How many simultaneous inbound (VPN) connections can Windows XP Pro
accept? And how many simultaneous inbound (VPN) connections can
Windows 2003 Server accept?
Click to expand...

Shenan said:
Indirectly answering your question:

10 concurrent network connections to Windows XP Professional.
5 concurrent network connections to Windows XP Home edition.

For Windows Server 2003 - ask yourself what your licensing/network
and hardware limitations are.
Click to expand...

Desert said:
No, not network connections. Inbound (VPN) connections. How many
inbound VPN connections will Win XP Pro support?
Click to expand...

Shenan said:
How about this...
Less than or equal to the number of concurrent network connections...
Click to expand...


Desert said:
I don't think that's correct. Going back to my Windows 2000 training,
Windows 2000 Professional could support a maximum of one inbound
(VPN) connection, while Windows 2000 server could support up to 256
concurrent inbound (VPN) connections. I have to believe that Windows
XP Pro also is capable of supporting only one inbound connection
because I cannot logon more than one time concurrently. But I just
need to make sure my logic and understanding are correct before I
tell my client we need to upgrade the server to Windows Server 2003.
Click to expand...

Looking here (at a simple instruction on setting it up):
http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/xpvpnsrv.htm

And then trying it.. And setting the IPs assigned as shown - I got it to
supposedly be able to assign 65,536 addresses. However, in further
researching (as Google works for me) - I suspect the limitation is still
ONE - since this is a WORKSTATION OS.

Your easiest course of action? Try it - come back and post it here. =)
 
With XP your limited to one inbound VPN connection...

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prcg_cnd_dbem.asp

This Windows 2003 information page indicates a limit of 1000 PPTP or L2TP connections are possible
with the Windows 2003 Standard Edition...

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...03/standard/proddocs/en-us/sag_VPNtopnode.asp

The Windows 2003 Web Edition seems to be limited to one VPN connection...

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