LAN Question

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Jim T.

I set up an 11g wireless LAN for my daughter. It works fine, with
just her own laptop remote.
Now her employer has given her another laptop with a VPN card(?)
installed, and locked some of the hardware definitions. She is on
Comcast but the employer is an independent phone co. and she will soon
change to DSL.
The router sees both laptops, and has them both in the same group
after I changed the old one to the employer set group.Her laptop
accesses the internet just fine, as it always did. We can boot to
Windows 2000 on that laptop, but can't log on to the employer's VPN.
This is true even if we connect directly to the modem or dial up their
network. Something is blocking access, but I don't see any firewall
present on that machine. The employer will have to resolve that.
Here's the question - finally -. Is it even possible to go thru our
LAN to their VPN and pass thru it to the internet, or do we have to
operate outside the LAN?
 
It can be done, I've done it. In the VPN connection setup there is a check
box for "Use default gateway on remote network". If this is checked, you
will connect to the remote network and use their Internet connection. If
this is unchecked you will access the Internet through your own connection
but go through the VPN to access the work computers. This doesn't count the
connection through the Internet to get to the VPN if you don't direct dial
the office.
 
PS.

You may need to open some ports in your router to allow VPN through. Check
the FAQs on your router manufacturer's website.
 
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