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

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

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:44:49 +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?
In my exaple, the Cisco Interface pointed to the University, and the Cipe
one is used internally. I just picked the Cisco VPN, because many
universities use Cisco and the Cisco VPN.

>
> Regards,
> Martin Schaffoener

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