- Apr 23, 2003
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At work we have a VPN-enabled router -- Netgear ProSafe VPN FVS318 -- that the boss uses to connect from home. I'd like to be able to connect from home as well, and I have an advanced VPN client (TheGreenBow) which will let me do so on my computer. (The built-in XP client is unable to connect) The only problem is that it doesn't appear to be compatible with XP x64, which is what my main computer is running. Furthermore, I could theoretically need to connect other machines besides the main computer to the work network, particularly my laptop, so I'm thinking it'd be easier to just link my network and the work network together via VPN. Now I really have no clue where to start on this since I can't go out and purchase the router we have at work, but I'm wondering if I can do some trickery with my VPN Client, a computer running a Server OS, and the Static Routing table on my router. Here's kind of what I was thinking:
192.168.X.0/24 - Work Network
192.168.Y.0/24 - My Network
Set up a computer running Server 2k/2k3 on my home network, which will also run the VPN Client and connect to the work network automatically.
Set up the Static Routing table on my Router (a Linksys WRT54GC for refference) to route all traffic to 192.168.X.0/24 through the Server's IP address, specifying it as a gateway.
...profit?
The thing is that I'm sure there's some steps and extra configuration in there that I'm missing, probably something on the Server computer's routing table that changes where requests to 192.168.Y.0/24 go through, among other things. I've not found any guides on doing anything like this, probably because most sane people would just give up and buy the damn proprietary router. Ahh, but see, I'm crazy-go-nuts. Lucky me.
Anybody have any clue how to do what I'm describing?
192.168.X.0/24 - Work Network
192.168.Y.0/24 - My Network
Set up a computer running Server 2k/2k3 on my home network, which will also run the VPN Client and connect to the work network automatically.
Set up the Static Routing table on my Router (a Linksys WRT54GC for refference) to route all traffic to 192.168.X.0/24 through the Server's IP address, specifying it as a gateway.
...profit?
The thing is that I'm sure there's some steps and extra configuration in there that I'm missing, probably something on the Server computer's routing table that changes where requests to 192.168.Y.0/24 go through, among other things. I've not found any guides on doing anything like this, probably because most sane people would just give up and buy the damn proprietary router. Ahh, but see, I'm crazy-go-nuts. Lucky me.
Anybody have any clue how to do what I'm describing?