VPN and static routes re-visited

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From: Patrick (pmcgilvray_at_xxcrescentpark.com)
Date: 05/13/04 

Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 10:26:56 -0400

I've read through a lot of threads that deal with this, but still don't see
a clear solution for MY particular situation, so here goes:

We have remote VPN users who work all day from home. They all have
high-speed Internet at home and connect to our RRAS servers using PPTP VPN
connections. They need to access resources on other subnets. If they check
"Use default gateway on remote network", this works fine. BUT, they can no
longer access the Internet. This is a problem.

I have setup static routes in DHCP using the static route option, and that
works great for internal LAN users, but the routes don't get added to the
VPN client's routing tables. Is this by design?

I've also tried adding persistent routes to the clients which again works
fine from inside the LAN, but not for remote VPN clients. 

-- 
Patrick (MCP)
pmcgilvray@xxcrescentpark.com (remove xx)

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