Ars Technica

IPsec strongSwan tunnels on local subnet - use local subnet ip address over tunnel?

I am using a strongSwan IPSec gateway for Windows 7 and Server 2008 based clients on the same subnet. The Windows VPN client requires a virtual ip address to be assigned by the IPsec gateway. What I ...
Ars Technica

Windows Firewall: Why does it block everything that's not on the local subnet?

I've just setup IPsec on my router (pfSense) and my IPsec clients have a different subnet (192.168.10.0/24) than my LAN subnet (192.168.0.0/24). By default, the Windows Firewall (in Windows 7 at least ...
Network World

Keeping traffic on a local segment

We have a physical subnet that contains a group of Linux systems with IP addresses from multiple IP subnets, which all share the same default router gateway setting. When any two of these machines ...
Houston Chronicle

Connect Two Subnets Over a Wireless Bridge

When you have a primary LAN and Internet gateway on a single subnet, and you want to provide Internet access to a secondary LAN on a different subnet, you can create a wireless bridge using two ...
AV Network

Byte-Sized Lessons for Tech Managers: DHCP

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In this installment of IP essentials for AV managers and tech directors in collaborative ...