The company I work for uses Cisco VPN.
I am sitting at home.
A customer of ours allows us to get to a computer on their network through terminal services but ONLY from our corporate WAN IP.

When I VPN to the office I am issued an IP and subnet mask... gateway is blank. When I run ipconfig I see both VPN address and my local address. Is there any way to use my office WAN to access the the outside world once I'm connected to the VPN instead of my road runner?

9/1/2005 10:57:08 PM

I completely misread your question... sorry.

You're connected to the VPN concentrator at your work and you want to use the work network to get out on the internet?

[Edited on September 2, 2005 at 6:31 AM. Reason : ]

9/2/2005 6:28:42 AM

connect to a machine on the VPN that has WAN access?

9/2/2005 6:30:25 AM

I want the be able to connect to a machine (webserver/customers computer) not on my office network. To everyone else in the world, port 80 is open. To our office every port is open. Problem is I'm at home, therefore I can only use port 80. Once I VPN to the office I need to use my office gateway to connect to the webserver for remote desktop.

So far my only solution would be to remote desktop to a PC at my office then use that machine to remote desktop to the customers webserver.

9/2/2005 8:28:37 AM

while working at cisco, I was able to do what you are asking about. However, it is most likely because of the corporate side configuration.

The internet was also much slower than when connecting via rr, but I also had to access training applications that were only available via an "internal corporate" connection, so it was necessary for me to do so through the vpn tunnel.

So the answer is yes it is possible but only if the corporate network admins have it set up to allow you to do so.

[Edited on September 2, 2005 at 8:35 AM. Reason : .]

9/2/2005 8:34:39 AM

^yep, what he said.

9/2/2005 8:37:07 AM

only two things i can think of is remote desktop or a terminal services proxy (if one exists). would that work bobby?



[Edited on September 2, 2005 at 8:40 AM. Reason : didnt realize bobby had arrived so soon]

9/2/2005 8:38:03 AM

^
Well, i think in his case, he has to RDP into his customer's network sourced from his company's WAN IP, so theoretically he should be able to do this through a VPN tunnel.

this is all assuming that the "vpn subnet" has a route to the WAN as well. Plenty of network administrators limit VPN access to the internal network only(which is dumb imo).

9/2/2005 9:00:54 AM

Thanks guys

9/2/2005 9:20:59 AM