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On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 09:08 +0100, Chris Aitken wrote:
> > > > I don't think that running a VPN client would prevent you seeing the local
> > > > network. Therefore if you share the printer via CUPS or Samba, you should
> >
> > "It depends" is normally the answer - if you are particularly paranoid
> > then the VPN is set to only allow vpn traffic in (the theory AIUI being
> > that if someone had hijacked your PC then at least they can't hack
> > "live" on the box (unless the VPN also allows the traffic).
>
> The OS is XP. Once logged into the VPN _everything_ goes through the
> VPN. Can't even access my router.
Oooh... yes, I remember using PPTP under XP and wondering how to set it
up to only route a particular subnet (something/16) over the tunnel and
keep the default route to my own router. Trivial under Linux etc. with
route or pptpconfig, but I gave up
It's odd that you can't contact your router (in fact I'm kinda reneging
on my previous e-mail here since normally only the default route gets
mucked up, the interface's local subnet route shouldn't change); isn't
this necessary for the tunnel to work at all? What do you get when the
VPN is up and you run "route PRINT" from a cmd box?
> > Could hot swap with USB port if it's not too fiddly. You can get
> > USB->parallel converters. In fact I have one somewhere I used to use
> > if you want it.
>
> Ideally I want something that needs no interuption or user input, so
> the wife can print from her laptop, and I can print from mine (from
> within the VPN).
Another possible work-around for this is to set up a Linux/BSD box as
the VPN client and use it as a gateway with NAT (e.g., use DHCP to
configure your XP notebook's routing tables to use this machine as a
gateway for the VPN destination network, and then SNAT or MASQ at the
gateway).
James
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James Ettle jhe@???
Southampton High Energy Physics
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ
PGP key ID: 03F94B5D
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