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Old 12-20-2006, 02:27 AM
Jeff Liebermann
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Default Re: Is Ethernet input to wirelss router encrypted?

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:06:26 +0000, Mark McIntyre
<markmcintyre@spamcop.net> wrote:

>On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 16:30:49 -0800, in alt.internet.wireless , Jeff
>Liebermann <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> wrote:
>
>>It works (so far). Results from ipconfig are:
>>
>>Windows 2000 IP Configuration
>>Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
>> Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
>> IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.11
>> Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
>> Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
>>PPP adapter VPN to local router:
>> Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
>> IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.15.2
>> Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
>> Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.15.2
>>
>>Oh swell. Now I have two default gateways. ipconfig lies.


>no, thats right, different default g/w for the LAN and VPN.


Y'er right. Two gateways is correct.

>>VPN termination to 192.168.15.1 and the stupid router hands me my own
>>client IP address 192.168.15.2 as the default gateway.

>
>again IME thats correct for a VPN.


My office VPN client does the same thing. I guess it makes sense. VPN
talks to itself in order to get to the tunnel on the local router.
Y'er right. That's also normal.

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