Office Network & Remote Network With Same IP/Subnet

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Simon

Hi there.

Our office network is running a 192.168.1.x /
255.255.255.x network.

When we have a user that attempts to PPTP into our network
remotely from a hotel or home with the same
192.168.1.x /255.255.255.x network - they are not able to
access the servers in the internal office.

Our immediate solution for home users is to change their
own IP scheme - but at a hotel we can't do that.

Any suggestions on how we can resolve this (without having
to change our office IP network scheme)?

-- Simon.
 
Add "host specific" routes on the client PC.
Let's say that the client's hotel assigned IP address on the NIC is
192.168.1.100 and it gets an IP address of 192.168.1.110 from the VPN
server. Now the client needs to access a mail server with the IP address of
192.168.1.11 which is on the office netwrok, then add a route such as:
route add 192.168.1.11 mask 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.110
It's not an elegant way of doing things. 192.168.1.x is a "very commonly"
used IP scheme. I'd suggest changing to another IP scheme whenever possible.
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Thanks,
Rakesh Chanana [MSFT]

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