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21 Oct 2010 21:57 #64362 by bradley porter
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Dear All,

I could connect to my 2820Vn via PPTP VPN and all seemed well until I noticed that some of my network was not available to me - such as file sharing and RDP access via local addressing. I assumed that since I acquired an internal address (for example, 192.168.1.12) via the VPN then I should be seen on the network as 'internal' and be past through to nodes.

However, I could not do this until I added a firewall from WAN-LAN stating that anything from 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 was allowed access - then full service was restored and all started working as envisaged.

Is this right? Should I have had to create an inbound firewall rule for a VPN connection to use resources within the LAN?

Thanks in advance.

Brad

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Bradley Porter

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23 Oct 2010 21:53 #64385 by bradley porter
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Anyone got any feedback on this one?

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24 Oct 2010 13:51 #64405 by kc_
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I've always had to have the rule in .. don't know if its by design or a bug though.

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24 Oct 2010 14:12 #64406 by bradley porter
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Thanks for the post.

I think it makes some sense as you still are a 'WAN' connection and you would want firewall rules to be applied if security to parts of your LAN is needed.

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