Hello to everyone
I’ve been reading a lot lately about setting up a vpn. The truth is I got confused.
I could use anybody’s help on the following:
I want to connect two different networks so a client computer from the one network can connect and access data on a server on the other network.
I have two Mikrotik RB750r2 routers and the following to work with:
Network 1 (server net) router ip 192.168.1.1, server ip 192.168.1.200, (the one I need to have access to)
Network 2 (client net) router ip 192.168.1.254, dhcp enabled.
I tried to built a site to site PPTP VPN Tunnel.
Which ips should I use during configuration? I followed a video, reached to a point where the server side seems to be waiting for connection and the client side keeps trying to connect…
I could use any advice so I can put this to work/
Thank you very much in advance
Best regards
Matthew
You need to provide a bit more information.
First off, are both of your networks using the 192.168.1.0/24 address space? If the answer is yes, I recommend that you pick one network and re-address it. You can use NATs if you don’t want to re-IP.
Without seeing your VPN config, no one can tell you what you need to change. You can post your VPN config, blockout your Public IPs, and we can review it. You can also debug, torch or run wireshark on your VPN traffic to get a better understanding of what the problem is as well.
Without knowing more details I am leaning towards both networks are using the same address space and the traffic is not routing over the VPN but staying local to your router.
Do yourself a favour and dump PPTP.
It’s been insecure for years.
Use IPsec or openvpn. A bit more of a learning curve but more future proof as support for PPTP gets dropped (best thing Apple have done)
B. Rgds
John
I use IPsec over EOIP between 2 Mikrtotiks and until I upgraded to 6.38 it worked fine.
I used the wiki and Greg Sowell’s examples.
I have some winbox screen prints here for how I did my setup.
http://eoip.patokatech.com/
192.168.100.1 and 192.168.100.10 are the router IPs.
2 weeks ago the VPN quit, I changed tunnel IDs from 0 to 1 and it reconnected.
I tried it again last week when it died but that didn’t work.