Two NetGear FVS318 Boxes

[ptuck]

I hope someone can help me out. I have two netgear fvs318 boxes setup as a vpn connection over DSL. The two netgear boxes are talking to each other fine. However, from the Main office (running SBS 2000 with two network cards) I can access all resources at branch office (no server just Netgear box, 5 PC's and 1 printer even have a network printer working), but I can only access the external network card at main office from branch office (internal nic 192.168.16.x external nic 192.168.2.x). It will not let me pass through the main server (SBS 2000 running ISA,but I am not sure ISA is the problem) to the local network. Does anyone have any ideas what I need to do? Do I need to setup some kind of routes? My goal was to get the two offices talking as if they were connected via a T1 line, but no such luck. Once I get to the local network, I will try to get DNS and all working. Any help would be great....

Thanks,
Paul

 

[John Lewis]

Sounds like you have your remote office set up with a network address of 192.168.2 and your main office set up with 192.168.16. SBS server has 2 net cards - one with 192.168.16.xx connected to your main office network and one at 192.168.2.xx connected to the NETGEAR box -- correct me if I am wrong.

If this is the case, I would remove the 192.168.2.xx card from the SBS, connect the NETGEAR directly to your main office switch or hub (or use the one built into the NETGEAR box if it has enough ports). Give the main office NETGEAR box an address from the 192.168.16.xx network and set the default route on all of your machines to that address. Haven't used the FVS318 before, so I'm not sure what you have to do to get it to route traffic between the two networks over the VPN, but it shouldn't be hard. They might be smart enough now to deal with it on their own.

If you feel a real need to funnel the traffic through the SBS, you will need to set up RRAS on the server and add a route for the remote network.