Re: Unable to ping/browse peer to peer network after setting up RRAS

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From: Phillip Windell (_at_.)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 08:15:44 -0500

Hi, guys..

I'd go a step further and say that VPN shouldn't be used at all. This isn't
the environment or situation that VPN is desinged for. VPN isn't for use
between two machines in the same subnet in the same LAN. The method to use
in this situation is IPSec not VPN. 

-- 
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com
"Bill Grant" <not.available@online> wrote in message
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>   The basic problem is that you have both NICs of the server in the same
IP
> subnet. RRAS is a router, so it really doesn't like that!
>
>     Are the .247.x  addresses registered public IPs? What you are trying
to
> do is tunnel through a LAN, not thorugh the Internet. You do not need two
> NICs in the RRAS server. You make the VPN connection to the server's
normal
> LAN IP. The tunnel is created through  the LAN between the client and
> server. As long as the client can ping the server, it should work.

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