Windows 2003 rras vpn one nic

Thank you,. Hi arie01 ,. Thanks for posting here. Here is the answer of your question:. I have an old thread which discuss similar situation:. Tiger Li. Just right-click, configure, and choose it to be a VPN server, and allow routing. The server will simply respond and authenticate incoming VPN connections. Now, let's assume I am in Spain and I need to access the server in Canada.

I configure a VPN connection to my server in Canada. That server supposed to assign my connection an IP address.

I tried a few variations and I couldn't connect to my server and I have no idea why. This is in order for it to route traffic for VPN clients. A simple one will suffice. I'll try to put one together later tonight to depict what I am talking about. I don't think I stated my problem clearly at the beginning of this post. I'll try again. In my question at the top, I noted that the server is a standalone server. It's only one server on the Internet that is not attached to any internal network.

You know, sometimes you browse to a site and a pop up window appears notifying you that the service is not available in your country. That's what I want to be able to bypass with my server. So, the server is located in Country A.

There are some Internet services that are available only if you are trying to access them using an IP address from Country A. Basically, I would like to configure my server so that remote users can connect to it, get an IP address from it and continue to access the services. So the server should function like a router or a gateway of some sort.

The remote clients do not connect to a NIC. VPN traffic is tunnelled through the public Internet be encrypting and encapsulating the packets. The privately addressed packets are simply the encrypted payload of the public-addressed packet. The remote client would have access to all resources on this server through its private IP address.

If the VPN server is not connected to a local network, that is all the remote client can see. This sort of setup can be used to give remote clients access to resources stored on this server but no other machines. There is one possibility which might work as you want.

You may have to install a second interface to do that as NAT needs a public and private interface , but you could use a loopback adapter either a NIC with a loopback plug or a Microsoft Loopback Adapter. You could then add the internal interface mentioned above as a private interface in NAT. You can do that from the RRAS console unless you are running W2k, where you had to use a netsh command. From W2k3 it is included in the GUI. Hello Bill and thank you for replying.

What you wrote in the second paragraph sounds like something that is worth trying. However, I am not sure how to configure that. Would it be possible for you to include the major steps of this kind of setup so I can follow them?

Thank you, Arie. There is very little to do manually. The wizard can configure NAT. I would install the loopback adapter first and manually configure it with an IP address in its own IP subnet. Since you don't have a LAN, nothing actually uses this. Go to the IPv4 tab and set up an address pool for your remotes.

You have now configured both NAT and remote access. The physical NIC should have "public interface connected to the Internet" selected and both the loopback adapter and the internal interface should have "private interface connected to private network" selected.

Your remote access clients should now have Internet access through this server. I will post some screen shots on my skydrive it I have time later.

As far as how to configure it in the VM guest, or adding a NIC and make it available in the VM guest, it would be done within the VM utility, bujt that would depend on what virtual host you are running. Keep in mind, if the guest will be accessing the external subnet, the host will require an additional interface physically plugged into the outside network.

After you've configured the virtual host and guest with the appropriate IPs and interface connections, you can follow the RRAS wizards. I still think it's much, much easier and works just as well using a single NIC and keeping the RRAS server internal, and translate port re-map the necessary ports in the firewall to the server. Use that option. Why would it matter what virtualization product he was using? Most Points The Distinguished Expert awards are presented to the top veteran and rookie experts to earn the most points in the top 50 topics.

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Here's what you'll face. Like its predecessors, Windows Server provides the ability to act as a router on your network and to provide remote access services to users outside your network. Here's how to use and configure these services. Initially, RRAS is not enabled on the server. To enable it, right-click the server on which you wish to enable the services and choose Configure And Enable Routing And Remote Access.

Figure B Choose the services you wish to support. Figure C Select the adapter that faces the Internet.