VPN Server - Not able to contact other users in network

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We set up mikrotik router as an office router. From home we want to VPN into the router and get assigned an IP inside our network. We need to contact servers and computers inside our own network, and also surf using that particular IP of the router.

So far it seems to work. I do an ipconfig and I get assigned an IP from the dhcp pool. I can ping the gateway but I can’t ping anyone else in the subnet. So I noticed my subnet mask I was assigned from DHCP was 255.255.255.255… I just don’t see anywhere you can set the subnet you get assigned int he dhcp pool for the pptp interface..

Is this what the problem is?

2

Actually no I checked actually VPN’s tend to do that. But why can’t we ping other devices .


Example

WAN IP is 200.200.100.101
LAN Network is 192.168.20.0/24

When I VPN in it gives me an ip of 192.168.20.53 .. but I need to be able to contact and use devices in the 192.168.20.0/24 network. But it only allows me to ping or contact 192.168.20.1 (the gateway).

Any ideas?

3

You need to set ARP = ‘proxy-arp’ on the interface that is effectively the LAN interface of your office.

Make sense?

4

HI
CAN YOU POST THE CONF OF YOUR OFFICE AND HOME???

I USE VPN’S AND WORKS GOOD¡¡¡¡

REGARDS

5

the proxy arp thing worked. But now we can’t change IP’s to any IP at all without it telling us there is an ip conflict.. It is quite odd.

I’m looking at setting up the VPN IP’s to be a a different range of IP’s and then routing to the 192.168.20.0/24 network somehow.

6

This is exactly what you need to do if you don’t run DHCP.

7

I do run dhcp though :slight_smile: