Connection Question

[stephenbouffe]

Hi,

I have a server located at my office that is listening for connections from clients, using bridged network.

I have a webserver in a data centre that connects to the office server. It connects and I can browse the shares on the web server from the office.

I have commisioned a new web server and It must be in the same building as the old one.

I set up the new server to connect to the office and indeed can see it's shares also.

I have found that when I log on to the new server I can browse the old servers shares. I assumed that the traffic was being routed via the office. However I can copy data between the web servcers as a much higher rate that my office broadband can support. Its more like LAN speed.

Both of the web servers belong to different providers. Is OpenVPN performing some sort of direct connection?