VPN through Win XP

Do you have Internet Connection Sharing turned on for the machine wired to the web?

this is a VERY common problem and the solution is pretty simple... the problem is that by default the MS VPN client (assuming you are using a MS VPN) has "use default gateway on remote network" checked. What this means is that your VPN client is trying to get out to the internet on the remote network's gateway, not the gateway of the client.  To correct this do the following:

go to the properties of the VPN connection (in network connections)
go to the networking tab
hightlight tcp/ip
select properties
press advanced
uncheck "use default gateway on remote network"

now the client will continue to use its own gateway (rather than the remote's) even when the VPN connection is active.

mikeleebrla,
i have done what you have suggested but it still does not let me browse the net.


TannerMan,
How do you turn on the Internet Connection Sharing?

all that box does is select which default gateway to use,, either the local machine's or the remote machine's,,, if a hacker is smart enough to hack in he/she will surely be smart enough to look at the ip config of the box and figure out what the remote computer's ip scheme is so no security is gained or lost here.

Sorry mikeleebrla, but you need to read the article that this snipet came from.....

"This is a very significant setting, because it can make the difference between having a secure VPN client connection or allowing your VPN clients to become hacker gateways."

Here you go
http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Configuring_ISA_Server_For_Inbound_VPN_Calls.html

This is not a question of being smart enough....why allow them in to begin with? There is a very dangerous difference in the two.

sorry about the delay,  i was busy doing other things.  Just to make things more clear, I am not realy worried about the security at all.  All i want is to be able to browse the internet throgh the server using The VPN connection.  The onlt thing that the server is connected to is the internet, and there are not LAN connected to it.  For example : i want my friend (Client computer) to connect to my computer (VPN server) and then brose the internet throgh me (my internet connection and the new ip i assign to it if needed).

I have not had a chnage to try what you guys have suggested yet, but i will and let you know the result.  In case some thing else comes to your mind please let me know.

thanks,