Re: When VPN connects IP and GATEWAY get same address

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I think it night just be that the local subnet of the client site is the
SAME as the DHCP'd vpn subnet.

I need to change the subnet of the client site first i believe.

Yuck!

-Jamie


"Joe" <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Fisheye wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> We have a sbs2000 server that we connect to via VPN.
>> This works normally except for one single laptop, which when it connects
>> it gets DHCP address 192.168.0.105
>> subnet mask: 255.255.255.255
>> gateway: 192.168.0.105
>>
>> Is there something wrong with this laptop? I have tried clearing out the
>> winsock lsp's also.
>>
>>
> Could I ask:
> a) if the VPN works?
> b) what the other machines show while connected?
>
> As far as I am aware, what you have is normal. By default, when the
> VPN comes up the client's DNS server switches to the one provided by
> DHCP over the link (the SBS internal LAN IP), and the default gateway
> becomes the link endpoint, which is also by default provided by DHCP
> from the server, and will, again by default, come from the SBS DHCP
> pool.
>
> You can control all these things: if you specifically stop the VPN
> link from modifying the default gateway, it will remain at the
> client's usual one, and an additional security risk is incurred.
> This may well be true of the other VPN clients if they don't show
> the VPN endpoint as default gateway. Check the properties of the
> VPN connection: Networking, TCP/IP, Properties, Advanced, General,
> Use default gateway on remote network (XP). By default ticked.


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