On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 10:49, Simon Wong wrote: > Morning all! > > I'm trying to get a freeswan VPN working from a Windows XP machine > through an ADSL modem doing NAT to my Linux (Fedora Core 1) gateway. > > The setup is: > > Laptop (WinXP) == ADSL Modem == Linux gw > > The ADSL modem is a standard Thomson (Alcatel) Speedtouch 530 as > supplied by Telstra and is setup to do DHCP and NAT for the Windows XP > machine. > > My Linux gateway is running Freeswan 2.04 on Fedora Core1. > > The VPN works fine when the laptop is on dial-up. It all breaks down > when going through the ADSL modem. Seemingly because of NAT.
I had a similar problem using Fortinet SSH Sentinel on the laptop. Ironically it worked fine when the laptop was running W2K but wouldn't work when running XP, so I'm guessing that it's an XP issue and not a NAT issue. I never did get it resolved :( > > I've done a lot of searching and the NAT traversal patch for Freeswan > does not seem to apply as the laptop is initiating the VPN connection. > > The modem apparently does VPN pass-through but I haven't found any real > explanation as to what that really means either. > > Do I have a hope or do I need to find some way to get the modem into > bridged mode to avoid the NAT/DHCP stuff altogether? > > Any pointers from people would be greatly appreciated... > > > > > -- > Simon Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Wongy.org -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people <http://www.lannetlinux.com> ------------------------------------------ Flatter government, not fatter government - Get rid of the Australian states. ------------------------------------------ To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. - Scott Granneman, SecurityFocus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
