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Pepper87
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PPTP connection for Winbox connection

Thu Aug 18, 2011 5:39 pm

Hi,
I have 2 business LAN's in two different area's that have routers on the same IP locally.
This means for example: 192.168.1.1 is my router's gateway IP while it is also the gateway on other end.
Running Windows 7's PPTP client to connect in.
When I open WinBox and try connecting it sees my router first though, and won't let me get into the remotely connected item. Is there anything I can do besides changing the gateway's IP address to connect?
 
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Re: PPTP connection for Winbox connection

Thu Aug 18, 2011 5:44 pm

Make a loopback interface on both routers by creating empty bridges and assigning IP addresses to them. You can now use that loopback IP for administrative access. Just make sure a route to the loopback IP goes across the local client PPTP interface. If default traffic other than local goes across that connection you're good to go.

Ideally always plan your IP addressing schemes so that there's no overlapping use of IPs. If you can, re-address one of the networks.
/interface bridge
add name=loopback0
/ip address
add address=10.255.255.255/32 interface=loopback0
 
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Re: PPTP connection for Winbox connection

Thu Aug 18, 2011 11:41 pm

Thanks!
Yeah, rookie mistake. I was trying to program a system that was under that IP then moved it over and can't change either now.

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