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When connecting to VPN....

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sswingle

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I setup a VPN internal to my network with a VPN capable router, essentially creating two networks. My main router is 192.168.0.1, and the VPN router gets a WAN IP of 192.168.0.112 from that. The VPN router has a LAN IP of 192.168.1.1. I turned on the PPTP server, and it said to assign yet another IP address, and warned to not make it the same as already set, so I made it 192.168.2.1.

On my main computer, plugged into the main router, I setup the XP VPN client, and told it to connect to 192.168.0.112. It connects just fine, and performs exactly as I want, I am able to access the shares of a notebook computer plugged into the VPN router which has an IP of 192.168.1.107. Yay, EXCEPT for one thing....

While the VPN connection is connected, I am no longer able to access the internet on the main computer. I can still ping my gateway of 192.168.0.1. I can still access that routers configuration page. However I cant get any webpages to open, and all my running programs (aim, yahoo, emule) all pop up and say internet connection is lost, and refuse to connect again until I disconnect the VPN connection.

Any ideas?
 
Besides the fact I am curious why you are running a VPN internally?
I think what is happening is all traffic is being sent down the tunnel and into the 192.168.1.x network. The gateway for that network appears to goto 192.168.2.x network that leads to nowhere.

 
see if your vpn device supports split tunneling... if so, enable it
since your 192.168.1.xxx network cannot loop back through itself to provide you with a path to the internet
 
I have the VPN internal for now so I can learn how to set it up and how it works. That and the fact that road runner seems to block it, so its impossible at this point to connect to it from the outside.

How can I change the gateway for the VPN?

And why cant the 192.168.1.x network provide me with a path to the internet? Any computer plugged into the lan side of that router with a 192.168.1.x IP can get online.

I dont see any option on my vpn device for split tunneling...any other solutions?

 
Woohoo, figured it out on my own. Went to properties on the vpn client, then to the networking tab, then to properties on tcp/ip, then to advanced, and finally unchecked Use default gateway on remote network.

Works great now.
 
Yup. That's how it's done. It's not considered "secure", but a lot of folks do it. The danger is that if somebody has a remote connection to your computer from the Internet, they now are on your VPN network.
 
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