VPN server on company intranet server problem

[Guest]

Hello.

We have an intranet server running several web-applications in addition to
file services.
The server has a static address, 192.168.1.10
We have a firewall with VPN passtrough that sends all VPN traffic to this
machine.

The server is set up with the standard XP VPN server with distributing IP
address pool from 192.168.1.20-30

VPN works fine and users can log in. All services on the LAN work.

The problem is that VPN users can not connect to the server using address
192.168.1.10, only by using the first of the addresses in the IP pool,
192.168.1.20.

This causes all kinds of problems, ranging from bookmarks that does not work
to URL's generated from the web-applications to be wrong for users in the
intranet and so on.

I have been searching for hours to find a solution to this strange
behaviour, and I am asking if any of you know what to do.

I have been thinking about setting up some sort of DNS, but I dont want to
unnecessarily complicate things.

Thank you in advance.

Cheers,

Andreas

 

[Guest]

Bump.

Please, does anyone know how to solve my problem?

Thank you.

 

[Robert L [MVP - Networking]]

If I understand correctly, you use XP as VPN host. The VPN host is not designed as a router so that it may not be able to route to 192.168.1.10.

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
Hello.

We have an intranet server running several web-applications in addition to
file services.
The server has a static address, 192.168.1.10
We have a firewall with VPN passtrough that sends all VPN traffic to this
machine.

The server is set up with the standard XP VPN server with distributing IP
address pool from 192.168.1.20-30

VPN works fine and users can log in. All services on the LAN work.

The problem is that VPN users can not connect to the server using address
192.168.1.10, only by using the first of the addresses in the IP pool,
192.168.1.20.

This causes all kinds of problems, ranging from bookmarks that does not work
to URL's generated from the web-applications to be wrong for users in the
intranet and so on.

I have been searching for hours to find a solution to this strange
behaviour, and I am asking if any of you know what to do.

I have been thinking about setting up some sort of DNS, but I dont want to
unnecessarily complicate things.

Thank you in advance.

Cheers,

Andreas

 

[Guest]

Hello Robert and thank you for your help.

Yes, you understand correctly, the VPN server is a winXP pro box, which is
also the file server and intranet web server.

I will try to see if I can manually add a route to 192.168.1.10.

If you have any other suggestion, I would welcome it.

Thank you.

Cheers,

Andreas