OT: Linking a new network to the LAN

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Boaz Bezborodko" <boaz at mirrotek.com>

> I set up a VPN server on my XP machine and forwarded port 1723 to my
> machine. Supposedly he was able to see the PLC with his software, but
> unable to connect to it. The reason, according to his A-B support guy
> was that they were on different networks.

Well, assuming it uses TCP of some flavor, you shouldn't *be able* to see it
from one of those addresses to the other; they're on different TCP networks, 
and thus invisible to one another.

Your only hope, Obi Wan, is to add an alias address on 10.1/16 (or 10/8,
how ever the PLC is set up) to the machine which terminates the VPN.  You're
still probably going to have the guy who's trying to phone in need to set up 
a static route for 10/whatever on his PC, to send the packets up the VPN, 
unless he sets it as his default gateway, which is not the default.

Cheers,
-- jra
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