Just want to know why what I did works. Have two sites linked via Ipsec VPN using Secure Computing Routers. Works great…site 1 has 192.168.1.x addresses and site 2 has 192.168.2.x addresses. The Routers also allow for PPTP VPN access which I use to access site 1 from home. Can only access network resources…Internet can’t be accessed unless I use remote desktop on the Windows server and then access from there or if I uncheck remote gateway option on TCP/IP, which is only giving me local access to the Internet. Site 1 is a domain network and Site 2 is a simple workgroup network. Site 1 is on a cable ISP and site 2 is on a seperate wireless ISP.
The cable ISP hosts our domain email. They will no longer allow our site 2 to send email to their smtp mail server as if he was sending from our domain. He can receive but not send. Thank you spammers.
So…I experimented with my work PC, disconnecting my PC from our network and using a dialup account and subsequent PPTP VPN connection to our site 1 network…and I could access the internet and do my email just as if I was connected directly to my network. Why did that work? Is it because my Pc is a domain Pc and that I had previously logged on before disconnecting? Like…maybe it thought I was back? I don’t know.
So then I go to Site 2 and set him up to use PPTP VPN to access Site 1 and use that connection for email. And it worked there. He could access the Internet and do email just as if he were physically located on our network. While simultaneously hooked up via IPSEC, which also still worked just fine. Why did that work?
Why does my connection (direct DSL) from home not allow me connection to the Internet at the remote gateway?
All 3 PCs have the TCP/IP remote gateway option checked.
