Dear All,

I could connect to my 2820Vn via PPTP VPN and all seemed well until I noticed that some of my network was not available to me - such as file sharing and RDP access via local addressing. I assumed that since I acquired an internal address (for example, 192.168.1.12) via the VPN then I should be seen on the network as 'internal' and be past through to nodes.

However, I could not do this until I added a firewall from WAN-LAN stating that anything from 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 was allowed access - then full service was restored and all started working as envisaged.

Is this right? Should I have had to create an inbound firewall rule for a VPN connection to use resources within the LAN?

Thanks in advance.

Brad

Anyone got any feedback on this one?

I've always had to have the rule in .. don't know if its by design or a bug though.

Thanks for the post.

I think it makes some sense as you still are a 'WAN' connection and you would want firewall rules to be applied if security to parts of your LAN is needed.