Re: [SLUG] A question of routing

From: Chuck Hast (wchast@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Sep 14 2008 - 20:05:04 EDT


On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Larry Brown
<larry.brown@dimensionnetworks.com> wrote:
> When you VPN from the WAN to the router, your Internet client should get
> an IP address on the LAN. This should allow your client to hit any
> machine in the LAN and any machine on the LAN should be able to hit the
> client on the WAN using the address he got from the VPN connection.
>

This is what I want but so far I have not been able to get it to
happen. It appears
that most of the small routers that are on the market are designed for the WAN
port to be linked to another router which is what you describe below. I need the
first instance I want to put the machine on the WAN side into the network on
the LAN side. Once I get that piece fixed I will have what I need. Guess I will
have to keep testing until I find one that works. Now just to find one
that will allow
a client to access the VPN on the WAN side.
>
> On the other hand...
>
> If you want to connect a remote LAN to your LAN, you will have to have
> some smart equipment. You either have to pay for firewall/routers that
> are sold with the ability to do this or you should go with headless
> Linux boxes. The trick is to have separate LAN IP ranges on the two
> LANs and have static routes on the two Linux Routers with VPN links to
> one another that allow anyone on say 192.168.4.0 to talk to everyone on
> 192.168.5.0 and the routes on the Linux boxen will take care of routing
> through the VPN.
>
> It may be possible to use the same subnet on the two LANs using a bridge
> interface but I don't know enough about this configuration to be sure it
> can work as expected since I've never done it.
>
> I hope this makes sense...
>

Yes, I just need the first situation, I have a Linksys that alledges
that it can
do what I want so either I have something wrong or I am missing something
or the truth is not what is on the paper.

In summary all I need is a router with a VPN that will allow a client to access
the VPN on the WAN side without the need to another router as the gateway.

-- 
Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT --
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."
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