IPSEC and PPPOE -
Using FreeS/WAN on 5.5 I have three networks talking in the "Lab", but I have yet to connect to the remote office over the Internet.
This is the deal:
In my office I setup three 'mini' networks on different IPs, all with different names, internal addresses, etc. These are all identical, fresh-install, 5.5 boxes, each with a win2k client hanging off of them. This setup works like a charm. From any client I can ping any client and life is good. However, I have so far been unsuccessful connecting to a “real” remote office, across gateways, and in different address blocks.
The “Lab” is our main office, which has a direct 2 Mbps connection with static IP addresses.
The remote offices are ADSL, PPOE (SBC) Netopia, Cayman series ADSL/routers with static IPs. NAT is turned off; the clients get DHCP from the e-smith box.
Could PPPOE be the issue? If so, what is the resolution?
...I’m sticking with this - not going to give up and buy a hardware based VPN solution yet, but I got to make this work!
Thanks in advance,
.nate