RE: Complete VPN Fundamentals and VPN Router RV042

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 09/07/04 

Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 02:36:02 -0700

Thanks Jason:

After repeated calls to Linksys support on your point of
having the vpnrouter of NETB set with VPN
passthrough=DISABLE for the reasons you stated, Linksys
insisted that I should have it set on ENABLE. But could
not give a reason. Later, after looking at manuals of
other routers I found that the VPNrouters have at least
two components. One component is a firewall. If you set
VPN DISABLE you would be setting the vpnrouter firewall
to stop VPN traffic and all VPN would fail. So as a rule
then if you want VPN set all routers to VPN
passthrough=ENABLE. This seems to be correct. Factory
default for this VPN passthrough setting is ENABLE. But
this is the first step only...

 
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi there Lewis,
>
>You've got a whole bundle of questions going here - and
we really need to
>get back to basics before working through that lot!
>
>First things first, whilst you may already know this,
I'll cover anyway, you
>can always skip over - A VPN should be seen as a pipe
which runs from one
>endpoint to another and the endpoints are very
important. The internet
>routers you have, I think, should be able to manage the
VPN without your XP
>system getting involved - and because of the way that
the Linksys devices
>handle VPN, this is often best.
>
>If you are configuring the NETB router as an endpoint,
then you should not
>need any further configuration at the server end. You
will need to configure
>the router at NETB to NOT be VPN passthrough, but to act
as a VPN endpoint.
>
>There's the Linksys article here:
>http://linksys.custhelp.com/cgi-
bin/linksys.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=207
>
>which covers XP/W2k config and the site:
>
>http://routerworld.dyndns.org/
>
>has some excellent configs which cover much of your
requirements - including
>MS -> Linksys.
>
>I'm sorry I can't give full settings etc here, but hope
that this gets you
>on the right track.
>
>Reply to the post if you need more info.
>
>Regards,
>
>Jason
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>There ate
>
>
>"Lewis Giana" wrote:
>
>>
>> So far I have a laptop at home, and I want to connect
to
>> a server in another house and the situation looks like
>> this:
>>
>> laptop1---Router1--Internet--VPNRouter---Server
>>
>> or equivalently:
>>
>> NETA---Router1--Internet--VPNRouter---NETB
>>
>> Router1 is Linksys BEFW11S4
>> The VPNRouter is Linksys RV042
>> www.linksys.com Their manual is almost worthless.
>> Their support inane.
>>
>> The ROUTERS HAVE TOTALLY DIFFERENT INTERNET ipS.
>> THAT IS, ONE HAS 200.3.34.4, THE OTHER 127.6.32.3
>> Each provides NAT and Private ips, one to NETA and the
>> other router to NETB respectively.
>>
>>
>> Laptop has XP Professional
>> Laptop and server have PRIVATE IPs
>>
>> Server is a DOMAN controller. Has Window Server 2003
and
>> VPN is NOT configured, since the VPNrouter will do the
>> VPN job. Is this thinking correct?
>>
>> To configure this WHY do we do the following steps? In
>> other words what are we doing? Can someone explain?
One
>> short paragaph should do wonders.
>>
>> 1. On the laptop with Windos XP I create IPsec Policy
>> FROM the laptop to the VPNrouter. DO I need
another
>> security policy from the VPNRouter to the laptop?
>>
>> 2. On the laptop Create two Filter Lists for the
>> connection from the laptop to the VPN router and
another
>> filter list from the connection from the VPN router to
>> the laptop.
>>
>> 3. On the Laptop create security rules for the filter
>> lists created on step 2. This is where encription and
>> authentication methods are defined.
>>
>> 4. On the laptop create two tunnels for each Filter
List
>> on step 2.
>>
>> 5. Assign the security policy create on step 1.
>>
>> 6. The mising step. WHEN AND HOW THE PREVIOUS STEPS
are
>> used or activated to create the VPN?
>>
>>
>> 7. The router for NEtA has vpn passthrough. Is this
>> correct?
>>
>> 8. The VPNrouter for NETB should it have vpn
passthrough
>> DISABLED? This router has VPN capabilities and can
>> establish 30 tunnels they say.
>>
>> 9. DO I need to configure the server on NETB just like
>> the laptop? In other words perform steps 1 through 6
on
>> the server?
>>
>> 10. When all is working properly and the laptop joins
>> NETB throgh VPN. what happens? Does one see a small
>> window to login into the server? or does the VPN
router
>> does the authentication and how? Or nothing should
happen
>> until one accesses shares on the server?
>>
>>
>>
>.
>

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