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Posted by Fred Marshall on September 19, 2007, 2:19 am
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> On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:29:59 -0700, Fred Marshall
>> I'm trying to use the static routes in an RV042 in conjunction with a VPN
>> on
>> the same device.
>> Here is an example:
>> An RV042 terminating a single VPN tunnel.
>> The firewall rules allow all LAN traffic - as usual.
>> I want to route packets destined for a "foreign" subnet to a particular
>> gateway on the local LAN subnet (192.168.109.0) like this:
>> route 192.168.1.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.109.254 metric 1
>> where the LAN side of the RV042 with this routing rule is
>> 192.168.109.198.
>> To test this route, I do a tracert from another client on the LAN using
>> an
>> added route on that client to first direct the packets to the RV042 .198
>> as
>> follows:
>> route add 192.168.1.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.109.198 metric 1
>> tracert 192.168.1.4
>> I would expect to see a "bounce" from .254 after the RV042 routes the
>> packets there. I do see a response from the RV042 but nothing back from
>> .254 subsequently. So, I'm suspecting that the routing on the RV042
>> isn't
>> working as expected.
>> Note that the VPN really isn't involved with this test.
>> In operation I want packets to come through the VPN and be routed as
>> above.
>> This seemed like a reasonable test to see if it was working.
>> Any insights?
>
> Does 192.168.1.4 know how to get back to the 192.168.109.0/24 network?
> In other words, does it have a routing rule something like:
> route add 192.168.109.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.??? metric 1
> If not, you'll never get a response back from .1.4 because it will
> send the response to its default gateway. Right?
>
> --
Dave,
Yes, it does. Thanks.
Fred
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