One of our offices has a small LAN, consisting of 7 computers, connected through a DLink 824VUP router. Five computers are wireless, two are wired to the DLink.
Everything works fine: ? the computers all see the ‘net through the Speedstream 4100 connected to the WAN side of the router; the computers see each other in their Workgroup (SONET) and are able to share files and printers.
They want to build a VPN tunnel to a remote office (actually, it’s not all that remote, just in a different building a block or so away) using SonicWall TZ170Ws.
All computers in both offices are XP Pro boxes.
When I replace the DLink with the SonicWall, the Workgroup basically vanishes… the two wired computers see each other, but the wirelesses see only the SonicWall ? they don’t see each other or the wired computers at all… can’t even ping, either by name or by IP address. Actually, trying back at my office to whack on the TZ170, I see a similar effect in that I connect the TZ to the DSL modem/router, which is a Netopia 4-porter, and while it does connect okay through its WAN port and does give me a =local= LAN in my office, in which all the local wired computers see each other, again I can’t ping or connect with the other computers in the building, connected to the Netopia, even though ALL computers are on the 192.168.37.xxx subnet… obviously, there’s something I don’t get about this whole thing.
The DLink’s DHCP server had all 7 computers on the same subnet, 192.168.1.100-107; the SonicWall doesn’t seem to be able to do that ? it has two DHCP servers (apparently) one for LAN and one for WLAN; the LAN is 192.168.1.xxx and the WLAN is 172.16.31.xxx and trying to change the DHCP for the WLAN doesn’t let it have the 192.168.1. anything that I can see.
Frankly, I don’t give a rat’s ass what the IPs are in this office ? first, I want the file and printer sharing to work, and then I want to be able to tunnel to the other office and either run a set of apps on one computer there, or otherwise remote to it if the speed of the tunnel is too slow.
I don’t know whether the SonicWall or the PCs need to be tweaked, or both… or whether we need to go insert these two $600 TZ170s into someone’s nether regions (hopefully not mine…).
Any ideas?
