RE: VPN through DSL

[Peter Lukas <plukas () oss uswest net>]

True, and yet some DSL providers assign a /30 subnet to a user's
connection. Large-scale providers, on the other hand, are more
conservative in their IP handouts and assign a single address to the DSL
router and have the user NAT through that.

It's also possible the techies at her company tested their VPN solution
on only dialup scenarios. Since most dialup sessions are assigned a
routable IP locally, their VPN solution would work.

I don't recall if the original post contained that information or not.

Peter

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, R. DuFresne wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Peter Lukas wrote:
>
> > Sounds like your VPN software runs on your client machine and your DSL
> > router is running NAT. This will cause problems for most any VPN
> > connection. It is also possible that your provider is blocking certain
> > protocols required for VPN connections as Jeffrey points out.
>
> I tend to get the impression her issues might be more related to NAT
> problems then issues with ehr provider as she states the VPN SW came from
> the provider.  Yet, I find this kind of strange as most often one gets the
> SW that the employer uses and knows from them for such connectivity.  I'm
> surprised her techies at the company have not worked this our for her
> there.  Sure makes it better for them to support a product they know then
> to try and support all the products out here for such use.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron DuFresne
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