Router Advice Needed

[TheScullster]

Hi all

I am trying to establish a remote connection via vpn to a client's site.
The problem we are having is that both our internal network and the client's
have the same ip address range.
I can connect via vpn to the client's router, but cannot then
ping/communicate with the client's PC.
The client's IT provider has recommended that I install a router between our
PC and our LAN so that the PC gets a different "internal" ip address.
The router would then be given the external address currently assigned to
the PC.

The questions:

Do I need any specific router for this?
Any recommendations on models?
It will be necessary to give the router a static ip address for the WAN,
side in order for our Firewall to permit traffic.

thanks

Phil

[atec 77]

TheScullster wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am trying to establish a remote connection via vpn to a client's site.
> The problem we are having is that both our internal network and the client's
> have the same ip address range.
> I can connect via vpn to the client's router, but cannot then
> ping/communicate with the client's PC.
> The client's IT provider has recommended that I install a router between our
> PC and our LAN so that the PC gets a different "internal" ip address.
> The router would then be given the external address currently assigned to
> the PC.
>
> The questions:
>
> Do I need any specific router for this?
> Any recommendations on models?
> It will be necessary to give the router a static ip address for the WAN,
> side in order for our Firewall to permit traffic.
>
> thanks
>
> Phil
>
>
have you tried something like hamachi just in case ?

[TheScullster]

"atec 77" wrote

>>
>> Do I need any specific router for this?
>> Any recommendations on models?
>> It will be necessary to give the router a static ip address for the WAN,
>> side in order for our Firewall to permit traffic.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Phil
> have you tried something like hamachi just in case ?

Thanks atec 77, but I don't see how that would help.

Phil

[atec 77]

TheScullster wrote:
> "atec 77" wrote
>
>>> Do I need any specific router for this?
>>> Any recommendations on models?
>>> It will be necessary to give the router a static ip address for the WAN,
>>> side in order for our Firewall to permit traffic.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> Phil
>> have you tried something like hamachi just in case ?
>
> Thanks atec 77, but I don't see how that would help.
>
> Phil
>
>
So did you try it ?
seems to me the answer you got is fallacious and just a little to
convenient
so try hamachi and post the results

[Roger Blake]

On 2010-01-15, TheScullster <phil@dropthespam.com> wrote:
> I am trying to establish a remote connection via vpn to a client's site.
> The problem we are having is that both our internal network and the client's
> have the same ip address range.

If you just need to connect to a single PC or server rather than the entire
network you can use OpenVPN. The target system can be addressed with an IP
assigned to a virtual adapter at the end of the VPN tunnel (defaults to
10.8.0.1). See http://www.openvpn.net for details.

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Roger Blake
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