Re: How to use a router provided VPN?

From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 02/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:34:46 -0500

anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:
> Marty,
> If you're setting up a VPN then they both need to be in
> the same private ip octet, eg. 192.168.1.1 and
> 192.168.1.2 also the subnets should be the same.

Actually, if both networks are using the same IP network, VPN won't work
AFAIK.

> Personally I always put routers from 1-10 in vpns,
> workstations in the 100-200's and printers in the 50's.
>
> Mark
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> I've got a T1, a D-Link DI-804HV VPN firewall/router, a
>> peer-to-peer network and an XP Pro machine that acts as a
>> workstation and our workgroup server at the office. At
>> the house, I've got another XP Pro, and a WIN98 SE machine
>> on another peer-to-peer network behind another DI- 804HV.
>> The DI-804HV can provide encrypted VPN tunnels. I've got
>> a tunnel defined, complete with IKE and IPSec
> proposals.
>> D-Link says I'm finished when I can ping a machine on the
>> opposite subnet, which I can do. The Router logs also
>> indicate that the tunnel is up.
>>
>> So how do I use this? The goal is to be able to run multi-
>> user software applications on the home computers using the
>> data that is in the XP Pro box at the office, just like we
>> would from other peer-to-peer machines at the office.
>>
>> Now I'm assuming that since the encryption is being done
>> by the firewall, and I can already ping the far end subnet
>> machines, this is not a standard Windows type VPN dialled
>> connection, which does it's own encryption. I have no
>> idea how to go about getting Windows to use this
> tunnel.
>> I've tried making the workgroup names the same on both
>> ends and browsing. No luck. How do I map a drive, or
>> otherwise enable a machine at one end to use data at the
>> other end? The subnets do not have overlapping IP
>> addresses. One starts with 192.168.0.1, the other is
>> 192.168.1.1. Will the machines have to have common subnet
>> addresses?
>>
>> TIA,
>> Marty
>> .

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