Re: 2 WLANs, VPN routing? Is it possible?

From: Alex Harsch (infodude_at_gmx.de)
Date: 04/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:40:52 +0200

Martin Schaffoener wrote:

> Alex Harsch wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> this should not make too many difficulties. Set up the VPN on the Router
>> Linux box to the University as you did with your Notebook. This will give
>> you a extra interface (lets call it cisco_vpn). Then set up a VPN from
>> your Notebook to the Linux box. Cipe is very easy to configure, and has
>> little overhead. This will give you an extra interface on both machines
>> (lets call them cipcb0 on both machines). Then on the notebook, you have
>> to make the VPN a gateway to the net of the university:
>> route add -net 192.168.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.0 gw cipcb0
>> Then make the router routing able:
>> echo "1">/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>> Then add the rule
>> iptables -A FORWARD -i cipcb0 -o cisco_vpn -j ACCEPT
>> There you go! Then set up the firewall for the router.
>
> Thanks a lot, I will try that. Even though I would not do that, my
> girlfriend insists on keeping Windows XP on her notebook. I am not sure if
> the Cisco VPN client creates an extra interface on Windows. How would one
> go about that?
>
> Regards,
> Martin Schaffoener
Hi,

Cipe is also available for Windows, and works well with Linux. The Windows
route command should work pretty much similar to the LInux one, "route ?"
should tell you the details.

Alex

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