[plug] vpn breaks home network

[Rob Dunne]

Hi William

William Kenworthy wrote:
> have you checked the obvious?
> 
> firewall? - cipsec0 may only be there as you start the vpn and you may
> need to restart the firewall once the vpn has connected.

there is no firewall on either of the machines. There may be something 
on the modem, but as far as I can see there isnt. I havn't set any up (I 
wouldnt know how)

> Another gotcha is the cisco vpn sometimes removes all local routes, as
> it expects everything to go via the vpn - what does "route -n" say?

before starting the VPN it says
plastic: route -n
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use 
Iface
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0

0.0.0.0         192.168.1.254   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

after starting the VPN it says
route -n
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use 
Iface

150.229.98.10   192.168.1.254   255.255.255.255 UGH   0      0        0 eth0

130.155.80.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 
cipsec0

0.0.0.0         130.155.80.17   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 
cipsec0

> 
> ciscovpn = migraines !

so I am finding!


> On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 20:08 -0800, Fred Janon wrote:
>> "To allow local LAN access, it must be enabled on both the VPN Client 
>> and the VPN device you are connecting to."

does this mean that this is hopeless unless I can get work to change 
their VPN policy?

Bye
Rob