Re: Netgear FVS318 VPN connection

Hi Vern,

What you say makes sense, except that as I noted, my W2K PC does not have an
internet IP address, only an internal LAN address.  Given that the source &
destination IP addresses also are internal LAN addresses, how does it ever
get to the LinkSys?  If you're correct, then if I change the tunnel endpoint
to be my W2K PC's internal (private) LAN IP address, I'd have to change the
source & destination IP addresses to the LinkSys's external (public)
internet IP address, right?

Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Vern Hamberg" <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: Netgear FVS318 VPN connection

> Hi Peter
>
> The endpoints are the NetGear router and your W2K machine, which does have
> an IP address, perhaps assigned by your LinkSys router. Run the ipconfig
> command from your command prompt to see it. If it's dynamically assigned,
> you will probably need to change it to a static address in your internal
> network, because the IP security policy setup cannot use something like
> "This IP address" - needs to be static. I think this is because W2K wants
> to be the control point (or whatever) for the rest of your network. I hope
> someone else can say more or correctly, but this is what I've observed,
> without formal training.
>
> Good luck
>
> Vern