A system for providing connectivity to employer networks for support
personnel and consultants who regularly work at customer locations. A
secure network mechanism is provided to connect these users at the
customer locations with their respective employer networks for the
purpose of accessing e-mail, reference material, specialized application
databases at their company, etc. Multiple VPNs are provided for the
transmission within a customer location and for transmission to the
employer servers to maintain security and control at the customer
location and across the Internet connection. The customer location may
inspect data and control what leaves their facility, while the consultant
employer network is allowed to control user access to their own network.
Name server information is also transferred between the disparate
networks so that a consultant looking for a common server name in his own
employer network gets the correct connection instead of the local
customer's server connection.