[vpn-help] Problems on similar private subnet?

[Kevin VPN]

On 02/06/2013 06:01 AM, Marco Lechner - in medias res GmbH wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we are having trouble connecting to Lancom via Shrew Soft VPN. Before
> starting further investigations, could it be a problem when the VPN
> tunnel starts and ends from a similar structured subnet?
> I mean, the client is behind a home-Router environment having
> 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 as well as the target office subnet has
> 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
>

Hi Marco,

You will definitely have problems if both the local (home-Router) and 
remote (target office) use the same subnets.

Basically, your computer would not know which network to send the 
packets to when trying to access a machine.

My suggestion would be to change the home-Router environment, you can 
probably do that fairly easily using the router's web interface.  A 
hint: after you change the router's IP address, if you can't access the 
router, try to manually configuring your client PC with an IP address on 
the new subnet and try to browse to the router's web interface using the 
new router IP address.