Hi Carlos,

sorry for the delay.
Here's my suggestion:

Assign a static internal IP address to the VPN router: 172.17.1.2
You can try to set up a DHCP relay agent on the VPN router but I doubt 
that either Linksys or Dlink supports that. Can you use a dedicated 
linux box instead of a hardware appliance?
You could also set up a complete separate DHCP server in the branch 
office but then you have two different DHCP server you have to 
administrate although I don't think that this is too much of an issue.

As I said, I'm not an expert when it comes to DHCP but I doubt that DHCP 
works across a VPN like you imagined it to work. DHCP uses ethernet 
broadcasts which don't go through the IPsec tunnel.
But try setting up a DHCP relay agent. This agent might communicate with 
the main DHCP server over IP.

-Daniel


Carlos Lopez wrote:
> Thanks for your reply Daniel,
> 
> Then as I follow your suggestion I'll try to implement this:
> 
> 1- Build up the Linux Router (Corporate):
> 
> ISP IP= 1.2.3.4
> LAN IP= 172.16.0.1/24
> 
> 2- Buildup DHCP and DNS server with Bind9:
> 
> LAN IP= 172.16.0.2
> IP POOLS corporate LAN= 172.16.0.10 - 172.16.0.254
> IP POOLS ExternalUsers= 172.17.1.3 - 172.17.1.254 (Via VPN)
> 
> 
> 3- Buildup Email server with Qmail or anyother software:
> 
> LAN IP= 172.16.0.3
> 
> 4- Buildup Web server with apache:
> 
> LAN IP = 172.16.0.4
> 
> 5- Buildup the VPN server:
> 
> IP POOL = 172.17.0.2-254 (These are the IPs that Linksys or Dlink device will 
> get after a successful authentication occurs)
> 
> -Install and configure a DHCP relay from ISC.org.
> 
> Then:
> 
> 1- Configure device (Linksy or Dlink or anyother) with:
> 
> ISP IP= 1.2.3.5
> VPN SERVER IP = 1.2.3.4:VPNPORT
> VPN ASSIGNED IP FROM POOL= 172.17.0.2 (If it successful authenticate)
> VPN SERVER KEY/PASS = "abcd"
> NAT-T = ENABLED?
> 
> The question reside on this, how can I do to let users get theirs IPs from 
> the corporate LAN's DHCP server (range 172.17.1.x/24)?. I'd like to do this 
> because It would be ease for me to handle avery IP from branch office, let's 
> say I can assign a group of address to Counter and another group of address 
> to sales and each will have a diffent access and configuration, let's say 
> Counter cannot browse Internet but Sales do. 
> 
> 2- Plugin a 24 port switch to device (linksys or Dlink) and from there the PC 
> stations.
> 
> 3- Try to ping from corporate LAN pc (172.16.0.11) to ExternalUsers 
> (172.17.1.11) and viceversa.
> 
> 4- Do some more traffic, let's say VNC.
> 
> 
> Carlos.
> 
> 
> --- El sáb 10-oct-09, Daniel Mentz 
> <[email protected]> escribió:
> 
>> De: Daniel Mentz <[email protected]>
>> Asunto: Re: [strongSwan] DHCP/Any Traffic over an established VPN tunnel
>> A: "Carlos Lopez" <[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Fecha: sábado, 10 octubre, 2009, 4:14 pm
>> Hi Carlos,
>>
>> I learned from your e-mail that the subnet your branch
>> office uses is
>>
>> 172.17.0.0/24
>>
>> Why don't you assign the static (internal) IP address
>> 172.17.0.3 to the Linksys / Dlink router and set up a
>> separate DHCP server in that subnet? You could also set up a
>> DHCP Relay agent and use the DHCP server in the head
>> office.
>>
>> I doubt that DHCP works across IPsec tunnels because it
>> uses broadcasts on the ethernet layer.
>>
>> -Daniel
>>
>>
> 
> 
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