Routing Issue?

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 11:09:50PM -0500, Wil McGilvery wrote:

>I have set up a VPN between my house and my office. The office machine is
>Mandrake 9.0, Freeswan 1.98b, and Shorewall and the home router is a
>linksys with a VPN endpoint.

>My issue is that I can ping certain machines and not others. I can ping
>192.168.1.7, 192.168.1.4 and 192.168.1.12 but not 192.168.1.8 or
>192.168.1.2.

Can you ping them on their local LAN segments?  Some Linux distributions
seem to think that the sysetm's more secure if they don't enable ping (e.g.
Mandrake 8.2 and possibly 9.0 in their default settings).

I've used quite a few of the LinkSys BEFVP41 VPN boxes, but never their
``endpoint''.  I think that the endpoint box is designed to be just that,
and endpoint, not a router for a network.

Bill
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