Newbie: VPN with Symantec Gateway appliances

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Newbie: VPN with Symantec Gateway appliances brischt 01-09-2007
Posted by brischt on January 9, 2007, 11:38 pm
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Hi there,

first of all, I'm quite new to administering networks and things like
that; sorry, please bear with me though.

My company has a Symantec Gateway 360. I recently moved overseas and
bought the same appliance, what I would like to do is actually work as
if I was in the LAN there. This includes logging on to the domain,
using Exchange server, file shares and the usual stuff there.

The remote administrator and me followed the instructions as outlined
in the manual of the appliance. We set up a static tunnel (I don't know
whether it was successful though, as the state tab of the web interface
only says "Activated", not "Established" or something like that).

Now, I was wondering how I can actually access any resources on the
other network. How would the gateway know which addresses/computer
names refer to the remote network and which refer to the Internet?
There is an input box "Remote Subnet 1 - IP / Network mask", but I'm
not really sure what to enter there; I always thought only devices have
an ip address but not whole subnets?

Are there any good resources I could use to catch up on how to
establish VPN connections / IP networking and subnetting in general?

Thank you for your help,

Roland


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Posted by brischt on January 11, 2007, 11:53 am
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Just in case somebody is interested - I got it to work...

brischt wrote:
> Now, I was wondering how I can actually access any resources on the
> other network. How would the gateway know which addresses/computer
> names refer to the remote network and which refer to the Internet?
> There is an input box "Remote Subnet 1 - IP / Network mask", but I'm
> not really sure what to enter there; I always thought only devices have
> an ip address but not whole subnets?

I read up on IP addressing and found out working settings; one branch
uses the network 10.0.0.x, the other branch uses 10.0.1.x, both on
network mask 255.255.255.0. After applying that, everything worked like
a charm.

Regards,

Roland


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