Posted: 9/8/2012 7:48:04 AM EDT
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Here's the deal, I work from home and use the Cisco VPN client to connect my work laptop to the company network which works "fine" but what I need to do is be able to connect some other network devices to the corporate network from home for a project I will be working on. The device in question would not be able to run a VPN client so I'm guessing I would need some type of hardware VPN device I could plug into my home router. What exactly would I need to do this and is it as simple as plugging it into my rounter and my work devices into that? |
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I think you're going to need to talk to your IT people at work, it's going to depend on what sort of in house appliance you guys are running for the VPN, how you authenticate, and what kind of connections the at work appliance is configured to accept.
If the hardware at your workplace can handle it, I'd talk with your IT people about buying and setting up a Cisco router with VPN capabilities and seeing if they can do a site to site type setup. If it's a single device you're trying to connect to the vpn that doesn't support the client, you can always just bridge the vpn connection to another network interface on your laptop. This would require multiple network interfaces on the device that is connecting to the vpn, but it shouldn't be very difficult. I guess you could used this same method to connect multiple devices to the bridged connection and manually configure the IPv4 settings for each device and use a hub to connect it all, or put a router between the interface on the laptop with the bridged connection to do all your DHCP. What OS does your laptop run? |
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Quoted: I think you're going to need to talk to your IT people at work, it's going to depend on what sort of in house appliance you guys are running for the VPN, how you authenticate, and what kind of connections the at work appliance is configured to accept. If the hardware at your workplace can handle it, I'd talk with your IT people about buying and setting up a Cisco router with VPN capabilities and seeing if they can do a site to site type setup. If it's a single device you're trying to connect to the vpn that doesn't support the client, you can always just bridge the vpn connection to another network interface on your laptop. This would require multiple network interfaces on the device that is connecting to the vpn, but it shouldn't be very difficult. I guess you could used this same method to connect multiple devices to the bridged connection and manually configure the IPv4 settings for each device and use a hub to connect it all, or put a router between the interface on the laptop with the bridged connection to do all your DHCP. What OS does your laptop run? Win 7 Enterprise 64bit. It has wifi and a lan port. I'll play around with bridging the network interfaces. I only have 1 thing I need to hook up so if I could plug it into the LAN port of my docking station and run the VPN off wifi I should be GTG. |
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I think you're going to need to talk to your IT people at work, it's going to depend on what sort of in house appliance you guys are running for the VPN, how you authenticate, and what kind of connections the at work appliance is configured to accept. If the hardware at your workplace can handle it, I'd talk with your IT people about buying and setting up a Cisco router with VPN capabilities and seeing if they can do a site to site type setup. If it's a single device you're trying to connect to the vpn that doesn't support the client, you can always just bridge the vpn connection to another network interface on your laptop. This would require multiple network interfaces on the device that is connecting to the vpn, but it shouldn't be very difficult. I guess you could used this same method to connect multiple devices to the bridged connection and manually configure the IPv4 settings for each device and use a hub to connect it all, or put a router between the interface on the laptop with the bridged connection to do all your DHCP. What OS does your laptop run? Win 7 Enterprise 64bit. It has wifi and a lan port. I'll play around with bridging the network interfaces. I only have 1 thing I need to hook up so if I could plug it into the LAN port of my docking station and run the VPN off wifi I should be GTG. This might work, but remember that you will most likely need a cross-over cable from your LAN port to the other device. |
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I don't think the VPN likes being bridge because i loose connectivity every time I brdige the Cisco Adapter with the LAN adapter, the laptop is using Wifi to connect to my router. I'll just have to get with the network people at work. This is out of my pay grade and they need to earn their keep.  |
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I don't think the VPN likes being bridge because i loose connectivity every time I brdige the Cisco Adapter with the LAN adapter, the laptop is using Wifi to connect to my router.
I'll just have to get with the network people at work. This is out of my pay grade and they need to earn their keep.
Rather than bridging, can you use internet connection sharing with the VPN adapter being the shared and the ethernet port being the inside port? |
That didn't work either. As soon as I enable sharing the VPN connection craps out.  No problems bridging or sharing a normal wifi connection with the LAN adapater, I had my netbook connected that way so I don't think it's anything on my end. Hypothetically if I were able to get a Cisco ASA or supported VPN router plugging that into my home router wouldn't interfere with my home network would it? |
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That didn't work either. As soon as I enable sharing the VPN connection craps out.
No problems bridging or sharing a normal wifi connection with the LAN adapater, I had my netbook connected that way so I don't think it's anything on my end. Hypothetically if I were able to get a Cisco ASA or supported VPN router plugging that into my home router wouldn't interfere with my home network would it? What you (and when I say you I mean the IT people from work) would do is configure the firewall to only send traffic destined to the company network over the VPN. The rest of the traffic would be NAT'd out to the Internet. No (technical) problem at all. |