Hi all, I'm new to the forums =)
I have researched this subject quite a bit, websites, fora (including this one) but have not found much about my problem. Any help is greatly appreciated.
My company provides two methods of remote access. RAS (MS) dial-up and VPN (Nortel Extranet). The RAS works fine, but of course it is dial-up and it's a bit slow. The VPN works OK if you are out of town and are using a generic dial-up ISP.
I periodically work from my home office and use either of the solutions above to access my company's LAN/WAN. I have recently acquired DSL (Qwest, Minnesota) and am trying to get the "Nortel Extranet Client" VPN to work.
My home setup is: 1 Desktop and 1 laptop (both Win98SE) connected to a Linksys 10/100 switch. The switch is connected to a Cisco 678 DSL modem / router. The router is configured with DHCP, NAT, and ppp for the local ISP (full time connection). Internet access has been great on both machines. File and printer sharing (and other LAN stuff) works fine as well.
I understand that DHCP allows the pc's to have dynamic IP's on the LAN and the NAT allows the pc's to share the ISP connection.
Starting the Nortel Extranet Client, it will connect to the corporate VPN server (the validation completes and the client seems to be satisfied a connection was established), but no corporate resources are accessible. I can ping the VPN server (I've specified either the name or the straight IP) but no other internal servers. External internet servers are still available.
I had suspected that the problem was with the domain/workgroup in my "Network Properties", "Identification" tab or the domain in the DNS portion of the TCP/IP properties of the NIC - changing either/both of these did not help.
If I use dial-up to my personal ISP (the same ISP my DSL connection is on) the VPN client connects fine and I have full access to the corporate LAN/WAN. For this reason I suspect something amiss in the DHCP or NAT setup of the router.
Again, any advice is appreciated. If you need any other setup info, please post.
Thanks,
Rob "Blasikov" Marshall
Andover, MN, USA
DSL telco: Qwest
DSL ISP: MinnNet (aka BossIG, AmeriOn)
O/S: Win98SE (IE5.5sp2)
I have researched this subject quite a bit, websites, fora (including this one) but have not found much about my problem. Any help is greatly appreciated.
My company provides two methods of remote access. RAS (MS) dial-up and VPN (Nortel Extranet). The RAS works fine, but of course it is dial-up and it's a bit slow. The VPN works OK if you are out of town and are using a generic dial-up ISP.
I periodically work from my home office and use either of the solutions above to access my company's LAN/WAN. I have recently acquired DSL (Qwest, Minnesota) and am trying to get the "Nortel Extranet Client" VPN to work.
My home setup is: 1 Desktop and 1 laptop (both Win98SE) connected to a Linksys 10/100 switch. The switch is connected to a Cisco 678 DSL modem / router. The router is configured with DHCP, NAT, and ppp for the local ISP (full time connection). Internet access has been great on both machines. File and printer sharing (and other LAN stuff) works fine as well.
I understand that DHCP allows the pc's to have dynamic IP's on the LAN and the NAT allows the pc's to share the ISP connection.
Starting the Nortel Extranet Client, it will connect to the corporate VPN server (the validation completes and the client seems to be satisfied a connection was established), but no corporate resources are accessible. I can ping the VPN server (I've specified either the name or the straight IP) but no other internal servers. External internet servers are still available.
I had suspected that the problem was with the domain/workgroup in my "Network Properties", "Identification" tab or the domain in the DNS portion of the TCP/IP properties of the NIC - changing either/both of these did not help.
If I use dial-up to my personal ISP (the same ISP my DSL connection is on) the VPN client connects fine and I have full access to the corporate LAN/WAN. For this reason I suspect something amiss in the DHCP or NAT setup of the router.
Again, any advice is appreciated. If you need any other setup info, please post.
Thanks,
Rob "Blasikov" Marshall
Andover, MN, USA
DSL telco: Qwest
DSL ISP: MinnNet (aka BossIG, AmeriOn)
O/S: Win98SE (IE5.5sp2)