Re: WINS problem Help!!!

The firewall is Sonicwall, and for security reasons, they have the wired and
wireless in their router set up with two separate IP addresses. 172 for
wireless and 192 for wired. The Main office has a Server with WINS
installed, so the wireless laptops are able to connect to the wired network,
but at the branch office, there is no Server, and wireless laptops are
unable to connect to the wired computers.

"Phillip Windell" <philwindell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The branch office does not have a server, only workstations. The vpn
router is wireless and has two separate ip addresses. 192.168.x.x as the
gateway for the wired, 172.x.x.x for the wireless.

That makes no sense. The device should have a single address on the LAN
and a single address on the Internet. The VPN Device should sit on the
edge of the Network just like a Firewall. The "wired" -vs- "wireless" is
totally irrelevant,...they are only two different types of "medium",..they
are not two different networks.

A VPN Router is really just a Firewall or Router that also has VPN
capability. Whether it is a Firewall or Router is determined by whether
or not is does "NAT" at the same time.

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