Please help - here are my specs - for VPN

[fanfish]

I have a BEFSX41 gateway at each end.

Both have computers on lan that can access the ionternet throught them.

I can ping the WAN IP of each gateway from the other ends.

What I want to do is set it up so that all the computers on both ends can talk to each other.

here are the settings I tried
tunnel 1
local secure group SUBNET 192.168.1.0 mask 255.255.255.0
remote secure group SUBNET 192.168.1.0 mask 255.255.255.0

Remote secure gateway (others wan ip)

3DES
SHA
Auto IKE
perfect forward secrecy (ticked)
Pre-shared key (a word that at each end is the same)
3600


Status Disconnected



The IPs of the LAN computers on one end is
192.168.1.5 - 192.168.1.25
mask 255.255.255.0
and on the other end is
192.168.1.205 - 192.168.1.225
mask 255.255.255.0


What do I need to do to get the VPN connected and have all the computers able to talk to each other.

oh and should I have IPSEC bridging enabled? any filter settings I need to change?

Block WAN request • Disable
Multicast Pass Through • Enable
IPSec Pass Through • Enable
PPTP Pass Through • Enable
Remote Management • Disable
Remote Upgrade • Disable
MTU • Auto

How important is the latest firmware update - does this router work without it? My firmware version is 1.44.3 Dec 24 2002