Re: VPN through a firewall

From: Wolfgang Kueter (wolfgang@shconnect.de)
Date: 02/09/02


From: Wolfgang Kueter <wolfgang@shconnect.de>
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 17:01:00 +0100

Isak Lyberth wrote:

> Ok.
> My home setup looks like this:
>
> Internet
> |_____|
> |
> Router (cisco soho77)
> |
> Firewall (OpenBSD)
> |
> Home computer
>
> There is natting going on in both router and firewall
> The router has a public ip adress, its also set to do port to port
> forwarding.
>
> At work there is a similar setup. but the setup works for people who
> are not behind a firewall.

It probably won't work because of the NAT you use at home. You need
either some sort of VPN Gateway for your home network or use official
IP addresses for your machines at home.

> I, as all others use the standard Windows 2000 VPN client.

The NAT is the problem.

Wolfgang

-- 
A foreign body and a foreign mind,
never welcome in the land of the blind.
Peter Gabriel, Not one of us, 1980



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