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Sonicwall Firewall Routing Issue

I have a Dell SonicWall NSA 4500 that I'm having an issue with.  I have only been with the company for a few months and this was here when I got here.  I am not real versed in the SonicWall.   What is happening is that when I VPN in, I am able to reach any computer/device that is on the primary subnet (same subnet as to which the SonicWall is on), but I'm not able to ping or connect to any other subnets.  When I do an IPConfig, it does not give me a gateway.  Is that the issue?   Could someone point me in the right direction?

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how are you vpn in? using netextender or an ipsec vpn?
once your vpn in and able to see anything internally the vpn adapter must have a gateway/config.

you need to look at ipconfig /all to see the vpn adapters settings.
Anyway in regards to not being able to hit a different subnet I would imagine the other subnet is setup on a different interface on the sonicwall? You can see this through the sonicwall web interface where it tells you whether the interfaces are up or down.

It sounds like there is simply no rule to allow the traffic from the vpn address ranges to the second subnet, can you have a look at the logs in the sonicwall, they should tell you why it is not allowing the packets through.

Also you will need to set a log server up for this, you need logs on these things. for issues such as this.
The logs are too detailed to be on the firewall itself so you point them off to a windows server.
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We use L2TP/IPSEC.  When I do an ipconfig /all I get an IP, Subnet mask, DNS servers but no gateway.
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Ended up being the check box in the Advanced TCP/IP settings for the VPN connection (using the Windows vpn connector) that said "Use Default Gateway on Remote Network".  It was not checked.  Once I checked it, then I was able to get to all subnets.

Thanks for everyone's help.
Ta ty.