Re: wireless connection problem

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:09:06 GMT, "Netadict" <netadictnospam@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>I am trying to connect (wireless) to my office network with my laptop. I
>have a Toshiba Satellite notebook; it says that I am connected to the
>network, but I am not sending nor receiving packets (while everything works
>fine if I am not wireless connected). I tried to ping between computers, but
>there is no answer. I checked the ip settings and they are fine. If I do an
>ipconfig /all command I get the right ip address, subnet mask and gateway.
>
>I think this might have occured after I installed SSH sentinel for the VPN
>connection while it was working well before I installed this software.

Yeah, that's highly probable. VPN clients and shims take over the IP
stack. If you want to do an unencrypted session directly to the
internet through your own router, you have to either disable the shim,
or setup a profile that has no VPN encryption in the tunnel with the
correct gateway. That's the way my SafeNet VPN shim works. There's a
good reason for this as a VPN should not allow traffic from your LAN
or through your router to get into the corporate LAN at the other end
of the VPN tunnel. That's an instant security nightmare. So, with
the VPN running and connected, you don't get to connect directly to
the internet. This smells like a corporate setup so I suggest you
call your corporate IT people and ask for help.


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