[NTLUG:Discuss] pass all packets between two nics

[severian@pobox.com]

In response to the welcome remarks of Jack Snodgrass at 03:38 PM 6/4/03 -0500:
>say that you are at home and want to use VNC to access office machine
>WindowsA using vnc.
>
>At home, you have Verison DSL and have a 4.64.x.x. ip address.
>
>At work, you have August.net T1 and your linux VPN box has 206.206.x.x.
>
>Your privante network uses 172.16.14.x.
    This is just what I want to do.


>So... you make a VPN connection from your home to work and get a
>172.16.14.x address assigned to your home machine. You have a
>secure, encrypted tunnel set up.
    Well, that is pretty neat.  I wondered how I was going to address the 
machine at work.  I did not realize that the home machine would get an IP 
address.  That means the home machine would have two IP addresses.  One I 
assign with the VPN and whatever their ISP or local lan gave them 
normally.  Do I understand that correctly and is it a problem?

>Now you do vncviewer 172.16.14.x ( ip of windowsA at work ) and you
>login to that box.
>
>You can do vncviewer windowsB and login to windowsB.
>
>No port forarding or anthing is needed. You route all of your 172.16.14.x
>traffic over your VPN tunnel.
    I understand that Windows 2000 has a VPN client.  Is the scenario you 
paint applicable to that, or is some other client needed?  I do need a 
static IP for the VPN server at work, don't I.  I have seen references to 
road warrior configuration, which is what I thought I was going to set 
up.  Those always referred to a static IP on the server and the client 
could vary.  I just need to give the people their X.509 certificates to 
take home with them.