Re: Ping VPN clients from other remote site

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From: Jim Behning (jimbehningmvp_at_atl.mindspring.com)
Date: 06/03/04 

Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 00:05:46 GMT

Ping from workstations generally does not work behind ISA. I do not
know how pings work through a vpn tunnel.

"Javier Gomez [SBS MVP]" <javier_gomez@remove.this.engineer.com>
wrote:

>Are you sure about this?
>
>>>get assigned an IP from 192.168.0.30 or greater.
>
>The IP range of the RRAS/VPN clients must be on a diferent subnet as your
>clients (which from your post appear to be in the 192.168.0.1 to
>192.168.0.30 range). What netmask are you using? You only have a pool of 30
>IPs for your internal clients?
>
>--
>Javier [SBS MVP]
>
><< SBS ROCKS !!! >>
>
>"Dan Williams" <dan_williams@newcross-nursing.com> wrote in message
>news:2eac5d02.0406021233.62b4daa6@posting.google.com...
>> We have a SBS 2K server setup as a RRAS/VPN server which several of
>> our remote offices dialin to and get assigned an IP from 192.168.0.30
>> or greater.
>>
>> We've also setup another remote site with an additional domain
>> controller which is connected to our SBS server via a hardware VPN
>> connection over ADSL.
>>
>> I can ping all PC's that are local to our SBS network from our new
>> remote office and vice versa (i.e. IP addresses less than
>> 192.168.0.30). Our remote office is on subnet 192.168.13.0.
>>
>> However, i can't ping any of the other dialup VPN clients from our
>> remote office, even though i can from the SBS/VPN server. I've a
>> feeling i need to setup a static route at our remote office so that
>> any attempts to ping IP addresses over 192.168.0.30 get routed via our
>> SBS gateway (ie. 192.168.0.101).
>>
>> Is there anyway i can do this?
>>
>> All suggsetions are greatly appreciated.

Jim B. SBS MVP
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