Re: Connecting 2 networks via Win 2003 server

On Fri, 13 May 2005 10:34:36 +1000, "Bill Grant"
<not.available@online> wrote:

If I place a static route on the PC1, I am able to ping PC1 from PC2.
However I am unable to ping PC2 from PC1. I'm getting very confused!

The fact that this does not happen when I do not have the static route
on the PC, but in the firewall, does this mean that ICMP redirect
packets are not being allowed through?


> It shouldn't really matter. When a client in 192.168.254 tries to access
>a target machine in 192.168.253 , the packet will go to its default router
>(the PIX at 192.168.254.252) . The PIX will redirect the packet to
>192.168.254.250 (the RRAS router) because of the static route you added.
>After this, it should send an ICMP redirect to the sender to inform it of
>the correct address to use in future. But the packet should have already
>gone.
>
> What happens if you put the static route directly on the client? That
>should bypass the PIX altogether. The client should send the packet to the
>RRAS router itself.
>

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