Re: Problems with static vpn

2005-11-03 Thread Andreas Krummrich

Zitat von Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:24:15AM +0100, Andreas Krummrich wrote:

Hello,

my OpenBSD 3.7 box at home establishes a static pptp connection to my
companies vpn server.
From any client at home, I can ping any server in the company. But I
can't ping any client at home from the company.
I have to ping a client at work, from any client at home, in order to
access my clients at home from the company.
PF is not enabled on the box. It seems, that the vpn is static for
clients from outside, my home net.


I don't know pptp at all, but from your description, it seems the 
office router

does not (manage to) establish a connection, it only accepts them.

Either change the configuration of said router, configure your home 
machine to

keep the tunnel up at all times (no clue how that would be done, or even what
piece of software you're using...), or - the simplest - just start 
ping before

leaving. ;-)


The office router is a windows 2003 ras server. Isn't there something
like a keep alive in ppp?
Or just a cron controled ping to the other site?



Joachim



Regards Andreas



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Re: Problems with static vpn

2005-11-03 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:24:15AM +0100, Andreas Krummrich wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> my OpenBSD 3.7 box at home establishes a static pptp connection to my
> companies vpn server.
> From any client at home, I can ping any server in the company. But I
> can't ping any client at home from the company.
> I have to ping a client at work, from any client at home, in order to
> access my clients at home from the company.
> PF is not enabled on the box. It seems, that the vpn is static for
> clients from outside, my home net.

I don't know pptp at all, but from your description, it seems the office router
does not (manage to) establish a connection, it only accepts them.

Either change the configuration of said router, configure your home machine to
keep the tunnel up at all times (no clue how that would be done, or even what
piece of software you're using...), or - the simplest - just start ping before
leaving. ;-)

Joachim



Problems with static vpn

2005-11-03 Thread Andreas Krummrich
Hello,

my OpenBSD 3.7 box at home establishes a static pptp connection to my
companies vpn server.
>From any client at home, I can ping any server in the company. But I
can't ping any client at home from the company.
I have to ping a client at work, from any client at home, in order to
access my clients at home from the company.
PF is not enabled on the box. It seems, that the vpn is static for
clients from outside, my home net.

Can anyone help? Perhaps it is just a missing parameter in the config
file?!?

Thanks in advance!

Kind regards,
Andreas