This may not strictly be a Lotus problem, but any help is appreciated. I have a good stable LAN and my local client can replicate with the server and also collect mail from external ISP (POP and SMTP). However, if I establish a VPN connection to another domain, everything goes wrong locally. I can replicate to the other server on the VPN connection, but local replication, POP and SMTP fail with bad connection messages. Is what I’m trying to do not possible?
Subject: VPN connection inteferes with replication
check IP
Subject: check ip? how? for what?
Subject: VPN connection inteferes with replication
Are you using vpn client from workstation or this is site-to-site VPN conection? I’m assuming you using vpn client from workstation, depends on vendor and configuration of VPN client some of them may cut all local conectivity for the time your are connected to other domian over vpn, cisco is a good example here… so my question would be can you gain access to any LAN resources while you conected to other domain over vpn? while you on vpn do you still use same DNSs?check ip configuration…
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Subject: RE: VPN connection inteferes with replication
Thanks for thhis.
Yes, I am working from workstation. Some connections stay up while the extra VPN is running (eg. I can still see and talk to the internet, and my local domain server), but others are dropped (like MSN, POP/SMTP comms to ISP). The IP configuration is quite standard - Automatic IP address, no DNS server or WINS specified.
Please, any more ideas?
Subject: RE: VPN connection inteferes with replication
quick question, if have no DNS or WINS server specified how do you resolve names to IPs on your network? I’m not expecting you have those static but you should have them assign by DHCP so what happend if you do ipconfi /all when you not connected over vpn and when you connected are there any differences?also do route print for both “no vpn” and with vpn are this changing?
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Subject: RE: VPN connection inteferes with replication
Thanks - here’s some info…
The only thing that changes when connecting to the VPN is the following info is added to the IPCONFIG /all output (xxx are for security)
PPP adapter xxxxx:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-xx-xx-00-00-00
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.142
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.142
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.xxx.xxx.35
xx.219.186.xxx
I’m not a LAN guru, so I may not be giving you all the necessary bits - please keep being patient.
Subject: RE: VPN connection inteferes with replication
ok, try this:1. you are not connected to other domain via vpn, from command line run nslookup your_notesserver_host_name you replicate what is the outcome?
- now you are connected to other domain via vpn run nslookup again, is outcome the same?
Subject: RE: VPN connection inteferes with replication
Same for both instances - pointing to my local LAN server.
Subject: RE: VPN connection inteferes with replication
well, if your DNS still knows where to find your Notes server then you should not have replication problem regardless of you connected to other domain or not… I would work with your network staff on this, it isn’t Notes issue… personally I can tell you I have myself similar scenario where several users who do samething you do, they connect via vpn with other domain to access then terminal server application while still working locally (to our domain) in Notes and whatever else they need to access on LAN just fine.
RW