Re: VPN: Anyone know how do do this?.....

Steve Kearney wrote:
I've tried that. It connects ok but it doesn't do all the extra stuff my
work VPN setup does, like routing etc, I know I can sort that but I thought
I'd have a look at other options first.

Their OSX client looks awful......

I've also tried Digitunnel which is supposed to work with Nortel but it
doesn't work for me...


I'm not sure what you mean by "routing" in this context. When I connect
to work via the VPN the default routing that I get seems to do the right
thing, i.e. all the network traffic for work (10.x.x.x) goes over the
VPN and everything else ignores the VPN and uses a direct connection. Do
you need to do something other than this ?


I think so - our VPN client is bespoke, a wrapper around the various bits of
COTS software installed on the laptop.

When I use the OSX client I have the tunnel up, but I think I'm still using
the routing table as before cos all I see is my local network. On the lappy
the table is different, local network is totally invisible, I only see work
stuff. It's very clever, and life is too short.

Which is why I thought of alternative ways. I might just try adding the
routes with a script but whilst I'm comfortable with this in Solaris, I'm
not so sure under OSX.

Also at the back of my mind is I shouldn't be hacking like this - but I hate
the frigging slowness of the laptop with XP it's no slouch in spec terms but
by Christ it faffs about loading stuff in the systray and popping up
balloons telling me stuff but hiding the tray icons I want to get info
from....

I might try it from my Sparc box, I know I can do VPN tunnelling on the
interface directly, but I reckon I can't with Nortel switches, seems quite
proprietary...


OK - well I won't pretend to understand what's going on with youe work network - it sounds odd though. The Apani VPN client works fine for me with Nortel switches and SecurID authentication and I've never had to mess with adding routes etc - it all just seems to work.

The only other thing I can think of is that maybe you're using IP ranges locally which clash with the IP ranges on the remote network, e.g. if you're using 10.x.x.x on your local router and the remote network is also using 10.x.x.x ? I use 192.168.x.x for my local network as my workplace uses 10.x.x.x.

Paul
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