Re: VPN Routing Problem

Bill Gribble, <BillG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, the errhine,
all-round howler monkey, and employee who makes items for sale from vacuum
cleaner dust-bag emptyings, moralised:

> Been pulling my hair out trying to set up VPN access from a remote PC
> to my company's LAN using Kerio Winroute Firewall 6 and the VPN
> server and client that comes with it. The support people at Kerio are
> doing their best to help out, but we're not getting anywhere
> particularly fast, so I thought I'd ask here, as although it might be
> a problem with the Kerio software, it could also be an issue with the
> network setup on the two Windows XP Pro machines concerned....
>
> I can connect the VPN client to the VPN server successfully, and
> browse network resources on the server machine. I can resolve the
> private IP addresses from machine names of machines on the LAN from
> the client, but I can't ping them or connect to them to browse shares
> and the like.
> I think it's a routing problem.
>
> From the client side, the VPN server name resolves to a 172.26.79.0
> range ip address, which is part of the ip range allocated by the VPN
> server to itself and its clients. Machines on the remote LAN correctly
> resolve to 172.16.200.0 range ip addresses.
>
> If, from the VPN client, I ping a 172.26.79.0 address, it routes
> correctly through the VPN connection. If, however, I ping a
> 172.16.200.0 address, it (incorrectly, I believe) routes out through
> the client machine's default gateway (ie. The local Internet
> connection) and, of course, fails to reach it's destination (and my
> ISP's routers are probably laughing at me for trying to ping a
> private class ip address through the Internet).
>
> Any ideas?

Talk to your network admins. You may need to setup LMHOSTS.

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