Why cant I make this work!

[James]

Just trying out routing from our England office to our Ireland office.

The Ireland server is set up so I can connect to it via a pptp vpn
connection - this has always worked from any client pc in the building. What
I have now done is, on the server in England, add a new demand-dial pptp vpn
connection. This connects to Ireland without any problem. I then added a
static route for the 10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 network on that interface.
I can now ping the server in Ireland from the England one, but not a lot
else... if I try this from a client PC it doesnt work. I then figured that
the default gateway on the client pc's is our internet router box, so i
added a static route to point 10.0.0.0 traffic to the 2000 server instead,
but still no joy... What am I missing here? I also tried setting up the same
from home (test 2000 server rras) into the england office, and I am having
the same problem.

Thanks,
James.

 

[Tomas Andersson]

Hi,

Have you checked with TRACERT what route the traffic goes? If not, check on
both sides. Also, if you have a firewall like MS ISA, both network's address
tables need to be in LAT.

Tomas

 

[James]

Hi,

Have you checked with TRACERT what route the traffic goes? If not, check on
both sides. Also, if you have a firewall like MS ISA, both network's address
tables need to be in LAT.

Tomas

Hi Thomas - I actually tried to cancel my message as I got it working in the
end- I didn't realise about the user account and connection needing the same
name... it all works nicely now! Asides from my dhcp query in another
post... thats not stopping it working, it just means more work.
I even got my dialup connection at home to do the same thing now, easy when
you know how!
Cheers.
James

 

[Bill Grant]

Yes, that is a common problem. If you do not use the dd interface name
(on the answering router) as the username for the connection, the connection
doesn't bind to the dd interface. So it just connects like a normal
client-server connection, and only sets up a host route back to the caller.
You need to actually connect to the dd interface to make the static subnet
route active.