Setting up VPN using two DG834s

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Mint_Sauce

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Me and a friend are doing a project together and have set up a VPN tunnel. He has a static WAN IP and a static local IP. I however have a static local IP but a dynamic WAN IP. I've set his router up to be the gateway and myself as the client and the connection works as far as I can see, however he's not in the MSHOME workgroup. :(

We can't see each others machines, do I need to do anything in XP? I've tried the XP VPN Wizard but when I double click the connection to "dial up" it asks for a username and password and then times out after 60 seconds.

AARGH!
 
oddjob62 said:
1. Are your LANs on different IP ranges?

2. Are all PC firewalls turned off (at least for this test so we know there is nothing "getting in the way")

3. Can you ping his PCs IP address.
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I can't ping his local IP address ( 192.168.0.2 ).

All firewalls are off. :(

The latest firmware for the DG834G v2 allows VPN although I don't know what type this is. How can I tell?

I haven't set up anything in XP, I guess I was hoping that the routers would fool XP in to thinking the networks were actually the same one.

Here's an amazing jpg! It may help?

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~henleyb/webstuff/vpn.JPG
 
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oddjob62 said:
What's your local IP?

EDIT: by the looks for things you're on 192.168.0.0 network as well. That won't work. Traffic won't be sent to your gateway and through the tunnel because your PC will think it's a local IP.
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So, I'd need to change one of our networks to 192.168.1.0 or similar so the traffic is sent to the router and then the router will know that it's the VPN tunnel?
 
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oddjob62 said:
What's your local IP?

EDIT: by the looks for things you're on 192.168.0.0 network as well. That won't work. Traffic won't be sent to your gateway and through the tunnel because your PC will think it's a local IP.
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My local IP is 192.168.0.4, nothing on my network has the same local IP as his PC. I've just changed his network to 192.168.1.0 and the subnet mask to 255.255.0.0.

I'm just waiting for him to reset his PC so his router will assign him a new IP.

Is there anything in XP that I need to set up and if so - how? :confused:

EDIT: Ok, his PC is now 192.168.1.2 but I still can't ping it in DOS. I'm guessing XP needs to do something?
 
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hmmmmm, I can't ping or tracert his WAN or LAN IP. My Netgear Router is my Default Gateway (afaik, I did the setup home network wizard and selected the correct settings for a hub arrangement).

Any ideas why it's not playing ball?
 
Yeah, I started off with just using a single PC address for both (with no subnetting) but that wasn't working either. I'll switch them back to single IP addresses but what else could be causing the problem?
 
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