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Hi everyone. I seem to have an VPN issue with XP SP2.
We have a very simple setup. We have a switch that has our Cisco 2620 Internet Router, Cisco PIX 515 Firewall, and Cisco VPN Concentrator 3005 connected to it. We have two internal subnets connected by a Cisco 2620 LAN router. The primary subnet we use is 10.1.3.x and the subnet located in another building is 10.1.2.x. Everything works great and has been for a few years. The Cisco VPN 3005 is configured for PPTP only. We have Windows 2000 and Windows XP clients using the built-in Windows PPTP client to connect to the VPN 3005. The VPN 3005 is located on the 10.1.3.x subnet. Once connected to the VPN they can connect to machines on both the 10.1.3.x and 10.1.2.x with no problems. In the Windows PPTP client properties we leave the box unchecked under TCP/IP that says "use gateway on remote network." This way they go through the VPN connection to get to 10.1.2.x and 10.1.3.x and use their ISP's gateway for everything else, like surfing the web. Like I this has been the setup for the last few years and it works great. OK, I upgraded a few machines from XP SP1 to XP SP2 and ran into a problem. By the way, in this scenario the XP SP2 clients have their XP firewalls turned off. The clients connect to the VPN server just fine and can access anything on the 10.1.3.x subnet but can not access anything on the 10.1.2.x subnet. They can not even ping machines on the 10.1.2.x subnet. When I checked the box saying "use gateway on remote network" it works properly but now all of their traffic is going through the VPN connection and that is not desirable. I found a work around for this issue. When the client logs in to the VPN server he/she gets an IP address from our LAN DHCP server. They get an IP in the 10.1.3.x subnet. If I leave the "use gateway on remote network" unchecked, connect to the VPN and get assigned 10.1.3.20 via DHCP, open a DOS prompt and type route add 10.1.2.0 mask 255.255.255.0 10.1.3.20, I can connect to the 10.1.2.x subnet. Problem is if they reboot their computer the route is lost and they have to manually enter in the route add command again. My big question is why do Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional SP1 clients have no problems connecting to the 10.1.2.x subnet and the Windows XP Professional SP2 clients do? What did Microsoft change in SP2 to cause this problem. If anyone has any suggestions on how I can get XP SP2 clients to connect to the VPN server properly without going through all of these hoops I would appreciate it. Thanks for the help. |
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