WinGate VPN Help

[PCH]

Hello

I've just installed WinGate VPN and try to get some help from the Help but it seems it is related to WinGate program and not with WinGate VPN. Nevertheless what I want to to is to create a VPN to access my PC which is behind a Linksys WRT54G router using DDNS to identify my network to the internet. How can I do this?

Thanks

[adrien]

Hi

Basically, you install WinGate VPN on one machine in each LAN, pick one to be the VPN server (so in its config, set up a "VPN to host"). In the other VPN installation on the other LAN, you would set up a VPN to join. The easiest way to do this is to export a config from the VPN to host, and import it into the joining VPN installation.

If you are connecting in to the hosted VPN through another firewall, on that firewall you would need to forward the VPN ports - usually port 809 UDP and TCP to the machine behind the firewall that is the VPN hosting machine (usually called the VPN server).

If you are using dynamic DNS, then enter the DNS name of the VPN host machine in the joining VPN.

There is a good document available in our resources page for this as well which goes through step by step.

See http://www.wingate.com/files/VPN_Setup_Guide.pdf for more info



Adrien

[PCH]

Hi Adrien

Thanks for your help. Still I have some questions:

1 - My WinGate Server is behind a router with DHCP. It is recommended to disable the DHCP and fix the IP's of the home network, isn't it?

2 - The DDNS is currently identifying the router. Somehow I have to forward this recognition to the WAN to the WinGate Server, no? For that I have to use the NAT?

Regards

[adrien]

Hi

You don't want two DHCP servers on the same LAN, so best option is probably to disable WinGate's one.

Is your DHCP server also your gateway (i.e. a NAT/DSL device).

If this device has a RIP2 listener (most do), then if you turn it on, that should fix the VPN routing issues on your LAN.

when you say DDNS, do you mean you are running an Active Directory Dynamic DNS server?

Adrien

[PCH]

Hi again

WinGate VPN DHCP is disable. The DHCP server is also the gateway: it's a Linksys WRT54G router (http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=33&scid=35&prid=601.

RIP2? Don't know. It says it has a RIP but only when the router is not set as Gateway.

By DDNS I mean Dynamic Domain Name Server. I have a dynamic IP which is defined by the DHCP of the ISP. I'm using http://www.dyndns.org to identify my home LAN to the internet. It's a feature of the router.

But I have to identify the VPN server to the internet, right?

Sorry by my silly questions. I'm a rookie on these matters.

PCH

[adrien]

Hi

You probably don't need to change your DDNS setup, since the router will be the thing that external VPN clients connect to, and these connections will just be forwarded through to WinGate VPN server by port redirection (normally called pinholes) in your Linksys box.

If you see an entry in the config for the Linksys called RIP listener or similar, turn that on. Then when VPN clients connect to the linksys IP (by way of the dynamic DNS), the connections will go through to the WinGate VPN server, which will learn the routes of the remote VPN clients, publish these with RIP, then your linksys router will learn the routes to the rest of the VPN automatically. This means that the other machines on that LAN won't need any config changes to access the remote VPN clients (and the remote VPN users will be able to access these machines also).

Adrien

[PCH]

Hi Adrien

I have a RIP option on the Linksys router but only when I define it as a router and as a gateway like it is right now. All my trafic to the internet is managed through the gateway, no?

Can I test the VPN inside my LAN?

Pedro