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Date:      Tue, 25 Sep 2001 22:41:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Riccardo Torrini <riccardo@torrini.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <esperti@gufi.org>
Subject:   Re: VPN, mpd-netgraph, FreeBSD, win95
Message-ID:  <20010925223848.T99739-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20010925220101.riccardo@torrini.org>

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On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Riccardo Torrini wrote:

> On 25-Sep-2001 (18:19:50/GMT) Joe Clarke wrote:
>
> > You're trying to get all of your remote Windows machines to access
> > _all_ of your internal hosts by name and address, correct?
>
> Yes, I need this because server-farm subnet and some important
> host are on remote (from firewall) networks.
>
>
> > my Windows clients use the default route from the PPTP gateway.
>
> I have this line "set ipcp dns 192.168.1.1" to enable DNS _BUT_
> our dns in on a different subnet from firewall and  win clients
> are unable to reach dns even with ping without adding manually
> this route:
> C:\# route add 192.168.0.0 mask 255.255.0.0 192.168.254.254 metric 1

I didn't need to do this from my Win 2000 Pro machine.  I just made sure
everything was set to be obtained from the server, and I got a default
route, a DNS address, and a WINS address.  I don't have access to a 95
machine to test that side of things, though.

Joe

>
> I'd like a default gateway pointing to internal-side of pptp link,
> but with w95 I got and empty "default gateway" after connecting, on
> the winipcfg-ppp-vpn-adapter, and trying "netstat -rn" from the dos
> command line give me two line "0.0.0.0" (default) pointed back to
> ISP side of ppp link.
>
> A friend of mine tell me about "profiles" under win, to force some
> parameters like default gateway and dns on the ppp connection.
> What do you think?  Have you any experience about this?
> As last resort I can create a script to add needed routes after
> successfull VPN handshake, but DNS problem remain, and I dislike
> to add out machines on local hosts file (to >>100 laptops)...
>
>
> > When data cannot be sent on the local (non-VPN) network, it is
> > sent over the VPN connection.  Now, this is available on Windows
> > 2000.  I haven't look at Win 95 DUN 1.3 in a while.
>
> Tomorrow I'll test a w98 and wnt client, cross your fingers...
>
>
> > I use the set ipcp dns command to pass DNS, and it works with my
> > 98 and 2000 clients.  I don't think I have any running 95.
>
> It (seems to) works even with w95 _BUT_ ISP-DNS obtained from DHCP
> are in front of mine, so I am unable to resolve my internal names.
>
> Any more help, hints, tip&trick or voodoo will be apreciated  :-)
>
>
> Thanks again,
> Riccardo.
>
>


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