[opensuse] Re: Connection Question



Kai Ponte wrote:

When I load the VPN client (Cisco VPN Client 4.8.00) from openSUSE I connect the computer entirely to my corporate network.

Now the question - every once in a while, I decide I need to print something locally.

I currently share a printer with my wife's computer (Windows 2000 Pro) over SMB.

Is there any way I can run on the vpn with my corporate network yet attach locally to my home connection?

Do I need to create a proxy or something?

This depends on your company's VPN configuration.

Some configurations shut down all local network configuration, let only stay the VPN one, and prevent to establish other local network connections again.

I assume that you can't ping your wife's computer after you connected. To test if you can reestablish the connection, you should take note of your network configuration before configuration and afterwards try to establish additional alias interfaces with the old configuration. Something like

ip addr add OLD.HOME.IP.ADDR/PREFIX dev IFACE

OLD.HOME.IP.ADDR/PREFIX is 192.168.1.12/24 or similar; IFACE is eth0 or similar.

If that succeeds, you've got some chances that you can make it work. If not, you're out of luck, the VPN configuration closed down your local system too much. (This is a configuration option in Cisco's VPN software, it is called "Allow Local LAN access" in the Transport section of the Windows configuration GUI; I don't know the Linux equivalent since I try to avoid Cisco's VPN software... ;-))

HTH,
Joachim

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