Hi,
my question is about the "local lan access" using the Cisco VPN client.
When I establish the VPN, all the traffic is injected in the IPSec VPN. Checking the VPN client status (Status / statistics) I see that:
- in "tunnel details", the local LAN is disabled (nothing changes if I enable the "allow local LAN access" in the VPN client profile, as it is overwritten by the VPN gateway administrator)
- in "route details", the whole traffic is secured (no local lan routes and 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 in the secured routes)
However, I do need to access some resources locally and changing the configuration of the VPN gateway (allow the local LAN and add local lan routes) is unfortunately not an option :-((
Referring to the VPN client documentation, it states: "this feature (local LAN access) works only on one NIC card, the same NIC card as the tunnel". So I added a second NIC and configured the routing to the local resources via this second NIC but no way: when the VPN is established via the primary card still the access to local resources is prevented. I see that the routing table is correct and - when I initiate the traffic - only the arp entry appears showing that the local resource is being contacted via the second card but no IP traffic is initiated on that path ... :-(
Do you know a possible solution / workaround to access the local resources in this scenario, by using a second NIC card or with whatever else solution?
Thank you in advance!
Best regards.
Diego.
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