Topic: VPN from behind SME Server/Gateway

[Benny]

I have installed a SME Server as server/gateway. From a PC in my local network I'm trying to establish a VPN connection to my office network (using Nortel Extranet Access Client), but it's not working.

I know this is probably not the most obvious, but still.... Anybody knows why this is not possible? I have opened port 50 and 500 in the firewall - which should be the ports used by the Nortel Client.

[trevorb]

I use the Nortel Extranet client to connect into my office from home (under 5.1.2 - not sure of 5.5 yet). To get it to work I used the following (the first line turns on the IPSEC masq properties in SME, the second expands the appropriate templates and restarts the required services).

/sbin/e-smith/config setprop masq ipsec yes
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event remoteaccess-update

You don't need to change any of the port settings under SME.

Trevor B

Benny wrote:
>
> I have installed a SME Server as server/gateway. From a PC in
> my local network I'm trying to establish a VPN connection to
> my office network (using Nortel Extranet Access Client), but
> it's not working.
>
> I know this is probably not the most obvious, but still....
> Anybody knows why this is not possible? I have opened port 50
> and 500 in the firewall - which should be the ports used by
> the Nortel Client.

[Benny]

Hi Trevor,

I tried this, and it works fine. Thank you for the tip!

//Benny