Configure Two gateway to work at same time

Sarasvatas — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:12:03 +0000

[strong]I have a network with two routers with different IP addresses. One of the routers is for Internet access and the other makes a VPN connection to another location. [/strong] What should I do in order to allow a PC with Windows 2000/XP to access both locations (Internet and VPN) at the same time since Windows Network configuration doesn’t allow for more than one gateway configured? Many thanks. QUESTION POSED ON: 11 APR 2005 QUESTION ANSWERED BY: Chris Partsenidis The answer to your solution is quite simple.

You use one router for your VPN and the other for general Internet activities, so what you’ll need to do is create multiple route entries in your Windows machine, so it knows when it should use either router.

The easiest way to achieve this would be to set as a gateway the router you use for your main Internet connection, and then use the following commands to pass all traffic related to your VPN through the VPN router:

'route –p add <vpn network> mask 255.255.255.0 <vpn router IP>'

You’ll need to repeat this commands depending on the number of networks you need to contact through your VPN.

The

-p

option makes the route entry permanent, meaning that if you reboot your PC, these entries will still remain in your routing table so you don’t need to retype them.

<vpn network>

refers to the VPN network you need to access, (e.g., 192.168.70.0), and the mask parameter is standard, assuming your networks are Class C type.

In closing, the is the IP address of your VPN router. I think that pretty much covers it. Remember that you’ll need to create multiple entries for each VPN network you require to access!

Good luck.

thanks for your information…

My question is what exact setting should i apply???? following is the configuration of my system

internet setting

system ip 192.168.1.xxx

subnet mask 255.255.255.0

gateway 192.168.1.1 (adsl)

dns used by adsl (202.164.51.21)

VPN setting

system IP 192.168.50.xxx

subnet mask 255.255.255.0

gateway 192.168.50.220

dns used by vpn 10.6.5.253

my company’s software run on internet but my mail is configured thru vpn. It is not possible to keep the two system all together..so i manually set the internet setting (IP, Subnet, Gateway, DNS)…..later in advance setting i add vpn setting (IP, subnet, gateway, DNS)

Now if i start pinging all the IP’s, gateway’s and DNS…..all are replying except VPN DNS just because it is pinging from default gateway(192.168.1.1). Here i want to set the VPN gateway (192.168.50.220) as additional default gateway. Is there any way to route between two different gateway????

what is meant by flapping Cisco 2800 router

2852 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:26:38 +0000

we have cisco 2800 series router,L3 catalyst 3750 series and watchguard (firewall) and that is connect to L2 switches. But when we connect to router flapping occurs, now we connected to firewall it works fine. please rectify this problem

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Configure Two gateway to work at same time

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