Hi,
I need to integrate some WinXP clients into a Linux-dominated VPN-network. Can anyone give me a hint, how I could tell WinXP to connect to a VPN-server on startup and set a static route to a remote LAN through the VPN server while leaving the default route set to the local Internet gateway.
When the windoze are in a LAN with a linux router, you simply use DNS and ipsec. ipsec can be used to connect a roadwarrior to a lan or do a lan-lan thing. All you need is publish the local dns-names to your users, when they try to connect the router uses the correct interface. We use such a setup to connect two remote LANs via Internet, one linux router with ipsec/X509 in each LAN, the rest windoze. For roadwarrior type, you may use the ipsec-package for Windows, which runs under 2k and XP, using X509 certificates and built-in ipsec support. This package gives you a better frontend :-). Automatic dialup you may do with a link to a folder etc., XP gives you options to choose the dialup for each remote ressource. Autostart may be a bad idea. Ciao Dieter --------------------------------------------------------------- Dieter Kirchner Systemadministration BUPNET +49 551 54707 62 D-Goettingen http://www.bupnet.de ---------------------------------------------------------------