securenat and bridge clarification/issue
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2022 3:43 pm
Hello,
Like many before me here: I obviously don't understand SoftEther. The manual has been read too many times. I am reading all over this forum that SecureNAT and bridge are mutually exclusive meaning you have one or the other! Have a very simple setup -- connect from my laptop to a remote office location that has a SoftEther. The connection only works properly to access the office lan like normal and my own internet (without pass all traffic). If I have SecureNAT enabled (192.168.30.1 -> 192.168.30.x) and I have a bridge (physical NIC on windows from 10.1.10.1 -> 10.1.10.x) setup, it works like normal. Two things sound off as inappropriate: (one) the office router went down during routine maintenance the DHCP belonging to the SecureNAT started highjacking DHCP assignments to other office devices. Two, if I disable the bridge, the internet on my laptop stops working. If I disable the SecureNAT, it works fine but I get 10.1.10.x assignments which I really want my VPN clients to be identified as 192.168.30.x on my network to tell the difference between local devices and remote devices. Now, the last material detail is that I have a static route added, "10.1.10.0/255.255.255.0/192.168.30.1" -- all of this running on Windows 7. Currently, still not sure how to resolve this. Thoughts, comments, concerns?
Like many before me here: I obviously don't understand SoftEther. The manual has been read too many times. I am reading all over this forum that SecureNAT and bridge are mutually exclusive meaning you have one or the other! Have a very simple setup -- connect from my laptop to a remote office location that has a SoftEther. The connection only works properly to access the office lan like normal and my own internet (without pass all traffic). If I have SecureNAT enabled (192.168.30.1 -> 192.168.30.x) and I have a bridge (physical NIC on windows from 10.1.10.1 -> 10.1.10.x) setup, it works like normal. Two things sound off as inappropriate: (one) the office router went down during routine maintenance the DHCP belonging to the SecureNAT started highjacking DHCP assignments to other office devices. Two, if I disable the bridge, the internet on my laptop stops working. If I disable the SecureNAT, it works fine but I get 10.1.10.x assignments which I really want my VPN clients to be identified as 192.168.30.x on my network to tell the difference between local devices and remote devices. Now, the last material detail is that I have a static route added, "10.1.10.0/255.255.255.0/192.168.30.1" -- all of this running on Windows 7. Currently, still not sure how to resolve this. Thoughts, comments, concerns?