VPN Disables My Home LAN?

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Whenever I'm connected to a client via VPN, my home LAN becomes unavailable.

Is that just the way it is... or is there something I can do to remedy it?
 
(PeteCresswell) said:
Whenever I'm connected to a client via VPN, my home LAN becomes unavailable.

Is that just the way it is... or is there something I can do to remedy it?
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Succinctly, yes. VPN joins the home computer to a different
domain. Overall, it might be better to leave it this way but
one alternative might be to make the home LAN a part of the
remote domain...if allowed.
 
fairly common issue, a pain to resolve! much trial-and-error...

in the vpn properties page (somewhere) there is a checkbox that says
something to the effect "use remote gateway to access the internet". Try
changing it and see how it affects things.

basically, XP is not too smart about setting up the routing table; it
routes ALL traffic either thru the VPN or not. google around for hints on
how to manually setup the routing table so that ONLY traffic to nodes
on the remote lan pass thru the VPN, all other traffic passes thru the
local lan. [you can "see" this effect, by watching the two little icons
in the tray, one for the vpn one for your adapter; only one will blink,
indicating which one is passing the packets; usually it's the vpn (when
above box is checked)].

One way to get around this is to make sure your lan's subnet is DIFFERENT
than the vpn's. Both very often default to the 192.168.0.0 subnet; try
setting your local as 192.168.100.0.
 
[email protected] said:
Whenever I'm connected to a client via VPN, my home LAN becomes unavailable.

Is that just the way it is... or is there something I can do to remedy it?
Click to expand...

It would be a security risk if it let you access your local resources
and the remote resources at the same time - in most cases.

One other thing - the local and remote subnets need to be different
ranges for you to share locally.

And there is another issue, if you uncheck the "use remote gateway" in
the network settings, you may not be able to route properly at the
remote end.
 
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