I have a computer on my home lan connected via ethernet.  I use vpn
software to connect to my office.  I would like to access the office
network from another pc over wireless to the the first pc.  Is this
possible?  We PC1 connects to my office, it of course, gets an ip
address of the office network.  The wireless card gets an ip address
from my wireless dhcp server.  I would think that since the wireless
card is in 192.168.1 network and my office is in a differnet network,
PC1 should act as a router.

Any suggestions?

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Cigarman wrote:
> I have a computer on my home lan.  I use VPN
> software to connect to my office.  I would like to access the office
> network from another pc over wireless to []the first pc.  Is this
> possible?  [] PC1 connects to my office; it of course, gets an ip
> address of the office network.  The wireless card gets an ip address
> from my wireless DHCP.  [Since] the wireless
> card is in 192.168.1.x network and my office is in a [different] netwo
rk,
> PC1 should act as a router.
>
> Any suggestions?
>

What is the 192.168.???.x of the office PC?

Do you use a PARTICULAR vpn CLIENT?  If so , you have to use it on EACH
of the home LAN computers.

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On May 2, 1:19 pm, Rick Merrill <rick0.merr...@NOSPAM.gmail.com>
wrote:
> Cigarman wrote: 
> 
>
> What is the 192.168.???.x of the office PC?
>
> Do you use a PARTICULAR vpn CLIENT?  If so , you have to use it on EACH
> of the home LAN computers.

The office pc wireless card is 192.168.1.8
The office pc ethernet card is 192.168.1.7
When i connect vpn, i get 172.29.1.10

my wireless laptop gets 192.168.1.5

so, what your saying is that if i wanted to access the same vpn i
would need to run a vpn client on the laptop.

could i not configure the office pc to act as a router between the 192
network and the 172 network and access the 172 network from my
wireless laptop?

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Cigarman wrote:
> On May 2, 1:19 pm, Rick Merrill <rick0.merr...@NOSPAM.gmail.com>
> wrote: 
>
> The office pc wireless card is 192.168.1.8
> The office pc ethernet card is 192.168.1.7
> When i connect vpn, i get 172.29.1.10
>
> my wireless laptop gets 192.168.1.5
>
> so, what your saying is that if i wanted to access the same vpn i
> would need to run a vpn client on the laptop.
>
> could i not configure the office pc to act as a router between the 192
> network and the 172 network and access the 172 network from my
> wireless laptop?

in theory, but in practice many VPN have problems when there are
multiple layers of NAT.

In order to access your PC your laptop has to  be a member of
192.168... but to access the VPN you have to be amember of
172.29... ---  The VPN client gives you a "virtual adapter"
to allow your computer to be a member of BOTH IP sets.

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