Steve Wiser wrote:

> Ok, that does make a lot more sense. However I need to keep the traffic
> encrypted to the end-point so I cannot use a VPN gateway which would
> then forward the traffic across a network (even a small one). I could
> do a VPN connection from the application server to each database server
> I guess. What VPN software do you recommend?

If you can afford adding a dedicated machine at each end (old Pentium I
with 64MB RAM would do quite nicely) I recommend M0n0wall with IPsec
enabled:

http://m0n0.ch/wall/


The benefit is that you can easily mix it with other software or
hardware based PPTP solutions.

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