Re: Neophite question

On Wednesday 12 November 2003 02:38 pm, Brian at Charter wrote:
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> After allowing IPSec and PPTP pass through on my home router, I am
> now able to connect to my office desktop from home through VPN.  The
> problem is, once I make this connection, my ability to get to the
> internet is destroyed.  I can no longer surf the web, send emails,
> etc.  Although I can ping my office machine, I can not get to any of
> my shares and I can not ping any other machines at work.

Hello Brian,

This is as it should be.  Think about it for a minute . . . If you could 
both access your office LAN and the Internet, you'd be a back door into 
your office LAN.  Your corporate security folks would probably have a 
problem with that . . . ;>

/g
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George Capehart

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