Hi ,

I have a problem with VPN clients getting a strange IP address when
connected using VPN.

The server is SBS2003 R2 and has a DHCP scope of 10.11.1.x, with RAS set to
use DHCP to allocate addresses.

When a client logs on across the internet, however, they get allocated an
address in the 169.254.158.x range. This range does not exist in DHCP, nor
on either of the server NICs. NAT is not enabled on either server or router.

We had a slight server corruption, whcih was repaired recently, with all
service packs re-installed and that is when the VPN problem arose.

Can anyone point me in the right direction ?

Regards,
Brian

Hi Brian:

This group is for older versions of SBS. You may get more response in the
SBS 2003 Newsgroup.

SBS public Newsgroups:

SBS 4.x: microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz
SBS 2000: microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz2000
SBS 2003: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs

if your current news server does not carry these groups you should
be able to connect directly to news.microsoft.com

Now that the housekeeping is out of the way, here are a couple of
possibilities:

Did you check which adapter RRAS is pointing to?
Admin Tools/Routing and Remote Access, right-click on the ServerName(local)
and select properties. Click on the IP tab and if it doesn't point to the
internal NIC, select that and click apply.

See if that fixes your issue.

Also, check that the DHCP server is working on the SBS and not on the
router, that the both subnets of the SBS are different than the remote
subnet. If you open the properties of the DHCP server on the SBS, do you
see a range of ip addresses reserved for RRAS? Should be at least 5 of them
in the range of the SBS internal NIC.


--
Larry

Please post the resolution to
your issue so that all can benefit.


"Brian McMahon" <brian@bewm.com> wrote in message
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Hi Larry,

Thanks for your prompt reply. I've made this group mistake before ! I have
the correct one listed in my newsgroups too, so I'll post it there too.
Thank you.

RRAS is pointing to the internal NIC.

"both subnets of the SBS are different than the remote
subnet."

Not quite sure what you mean there. The external NIC has a real internet
address and subnet allocated by the ISP, so is quite different. Is that what
you mean ?

The address leases in DHCP do not, as they should, show RAS allocated
addresses. I think that's where the problem is, as the 169.x.x.x type
addresses being used by the clients matches that kind of address used when
no DHCP is available. So it looks like DHCP is not recognising RRAS request
for allocations, so isn't actually providing any. Any idea what could be
causing this ?

Regards,
Brian


"Larry Struckmeyer" <lstruckmeyer(at)mis-wizards(dot)com> wrote in message
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