Cisco VPN Client keeps us out of new Xserve

[Jeff275]

We just got a new Xserve and it is set pretty much to the defaults. We have a client that we have to connect to via a Cisco VPN client on an OS X machine. When we are logged in to the VPN we cannot login to the Xserve. Our old NT machines are no problem. Is it something to do with DHCP? Something completely different? Any ideas?

[Jeff275]

Nope, can’t ping it if connected. i think I’ve figured out that it’s actually a flaw in the VPN that is allowing me to mount NT servers. They must use pure appletalk whereas the new server uses more TCP/IP or something.

[ichnisan]

the cisco vpn client has a check box to allow access to local area network. The setting is on the Transport tab when you are looking at the properties of the connection.

If you want to access other things than on your local area network, you are going to have to ask your client to enable split dns and split connection(I think that is what it is called) otherwise the cisco client has a builtin firewall which basically disables access to anything but the network to which you are connected.

The local LAN setting is on your client software, everything else is on the cisco device which you are connecting to.

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