Network 192.168.0.0 can see 192.168.168.0 ??

[MelvinM]

I have an interesting problem that defies my knowledge hopefully some of you wiser experts can help sort this out.

I have an office in NY, network is 192.168.0.0 w/ 255.255.255.0. Office in Asia, network is 192.168.168.0 w/ 255.255.255.0. Two Sonic Walls connect us. They provide a VPN connection. The problem is that browsing the network in Asia is slooowww, and our intranet server suffers from it as well, maybe from the same root problem.

Is that VALID to have 192.168.0.0 and 192.168.168.0 be able to see each other? If I try this at home w/ two local machines they can’t even ping each other, let alone browse. The original admin set it up this way. VNC connections are fairly stable, but it uses a Public address, not the class C for the offices. I can’t help think this is wrong. The layout on my end is a cisco 3600 and the sonic wall, similar setup in asia. The configs on the 3600 in NY look alright. Don’t have access yet to the asia router. I have a hunch it’s the range of IPs somehow being allowed to talk/translate through the sonicwalls, but can’t help feel if both networks were 192.168.0.0 w/255.255.255.0 it would be a lot faster.

Anyone? Thank you!

 

[jimbopalmer]

I DO know that you would be worse if they were both the same.

Now if a PC wants to find 192.168.0.x, it KNOWs it is in NY, no need to go to asia

and if it wants to find a 192.168.168.x PC it knows it is on the other side of the Sonic wall. no reason to look locally.

if both sites use 192.168.0.x how can your PC know where to look, local or beyond the fire wall?

I cannot tell you why asia is slow (are they forced to come to NY to get on the internet? that would be horrible, the speed of light eats you up)

Did your home network have a sonic wall in it?

I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.

 

[MelvinM]

Hmmm I think I see your point.. that 2nd to last set. "168 vs 0" being the network part.. similar to an area code.

What would be the best way to set up this type of network I wonder?

Asia has it own gateway to the internet. NY has a inranet server it pulls pages from across the VPN. Tunneling only, encryption turned off.

Thanks, and any more thoughts?

 

[jimbopalmer]

Yes with 255.255.255.0 any change in the first three parts is a different network, machines with only the fourth part changed are local.

Glad to hear Asia ia not getting internet via NY (My DSL in Nevada has Rochester NY as it's second hop, adds 85ms to every thing I do, would only be worse in asia, 300 ms?)
I pinged a site in China 202.96.13.134 it took me 300 ms from Mississippi, how fast can you ping a 192.168.168.x address? if it is about the same as my sample, you may BE ideal

I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.

 

[RCNetAdmin]

192.168.0.0 with subnet 255.255.255.0 is a completely different subnet from 192.168.168.0.
192.168.0.0 guess from 192.168.0.1 to 254 as for 192.168.168.0 it goes from 192.168.168.1 to 254.
There is nothing to do between the IP and the fact that it is slow. I ping from Israel to Japan with almost the same delay.
Is guess Asia use resources in NY. Are they able to access NY and vise versa?
If yes, check your router’s interface for line errors or packet loss in NY and in Asia.

 

[Bobg1]

You might want to check the config of your sonic walls.
Thats where you are routing your traffic. If properly set it should grab those packets and send them to asia quickly, if not it has to hunt the network to find where they need to go.