Sounds like you need to have a router with VPN termination capabilities. Then your whole home network gets a VPN connection which may or may not be a good thing. But you're right, your laptop's VPN connection will not be shared with the rest of your home network and that's why your phone doesnt work.
Does your phone system support a softphone you could use? That might be a better option than bringing home a handset. - Andy O. ________________________________________ From: Marty Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 4:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Does Anyone Have Nortel 1120E IP Phones Happy New Years all! The company I work for picked up a couple to play with thinking that when people work from home, they can pick up one of these phones, take it home, plug into their home network, VPN into the office and were all set. When someone rings their extension in the office rings, it gets forwarded to the 1120E that the user has taken home. Well, me being the guinea pig that I am volunteered to take one of these phones home, and its not working. Its addressing is setup for DHCP, so it gets an address from my network, with the default gateway being my wireless AP which makes sense to me as to why this phone isnt working My wireless AP doesnt know or care about my laptops PPTP VPN connection, so its sending the phones data out to the real world, or most likely dropping it altogether, Anyhow, any help would be GREATLY appreciated, as I feel like Im stuck here and dont know how to get out. Thanks in advance, Marty Nelson ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
