Accessing public internet from site-2-site VPN

[MarkFrautschi]

I have a general VPN question.

Say I have a pair of Linksys VPN routers configured with the same keys.

After I establish a site-to-site VPN, with machines in several locations having nonroutable IP addresses (192.168.1.x, say) so that all appear to belong to a single LAN, what happens if I attempt to access the internet from any of these machines?

I imagine that the nearest router handles this for me, but I have never actually tried this. Should it "just work"?

If I enable DHCP services on one router, should I disable it on the other?

Thanks,


MF

 

[Castor66]

Accessing the internet should remain unchanged after the VPN is established. Only the IP Address ranges you specify that are to be routed through the tunnel will be, i.e. 192.168.1.x. All others will head off to the internet as normal.

As for DHCP - no - you don't need to disable it on the other. DHCP will give out addresses on it's local subnet. It won't give out addresses across the VPN.