Very Frustrated! Any help would be much appreciated.
I'm using Sprint's Broadband Direct, Fixed Wireless with a static IP address. I'm running an Apple AirPort 2.0 base station, with an iMac 333 connected directly to the LAN port, two wireless iMac 500s upstairs, and a Hybrid cable modem connected to the WAN port. The system works very well with my iMacs! I have a Dell laptop running Windows NT (company computer) with Nortel's Contivity VPN client installed. I have been trying to get the Dell laptop to communicate with our company server with little success. Here's what I have tried. Using my connected iMac 333, I mapped several ports on 10.0.1.201 that are used by the Nortel client. I manually assigned IP address 10.0.1.201 and subnet 255.255.255.0 to the laptop. I unplug the LAN ethernet cable from my iMac 333 and plug it into the laptop. I restart the laptop and when I start up the VPN client the laptop is able to communicate with the base station and the modem, however, I get a VPN switch failure at the company server.
Am I on the right track? Any ideas?
I'm using Sprint's Broadband Direct, Fixed Wireless with a static IP address. I'm running an Apple AirPort 2.0 base station, with an iMac 333 connected directly to the LAN port, two wireless iMac 500s upstairs, and a Hybrid cable modem connected to the WAN port. The system works very well with my iMacs! I have a Dell laptop running Windows NT (company computer) with Nortel's Contivity VPN client installed. I have been trying to get the Dell laptop to communicate with our company server with little success. Here's what I have tried. Using my connected iMac 333, I mapped several ports on 10.0.1.201 that are used by the Nortel client. I manually assigned IP address 10.0.1.201 and subnet 255.255.255.0 to the laptop. I unplug the LAN ethernet cable from my iMac 333 and plug it into the laptop. I restart the laptop and when I start up the VPN client the laptop is able to communicate with the base station and the modem, however, I get a VPN switch failure at the company server.
Am I on the right track? Any ideas?