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PPTP and NAT (but it isn't the usual question)

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mmez

IS-IT--Management
Sep 18, 2002
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Hi all,
at home I've a Cisco 827-4V router with 12.2(8)T4 IOS version. It's connected to an ADSL line and my ISP assigns to it a dynamic address.
As I have three PC which need to connect to the Internet, I configured the router to perform overloaded NAT.
This way, PPTP connections to my office VPN server, do not work.
If I configure a static nat between the inside global address and one of the inside local addresses, connections work perfectly.
But there are two problems with this configuration:
1) The inside global address is dynamic: so everytime I've to change the ip nat inside source static statement.
2) Just one PC at a time (the static natted one) can establish a PPTP connection.
Is there any solution to allow all my three PC to connect to the PPTP VPN server simultaneously?

Thx.
 
My understanding of VPN through NAT is that it requires a one to one translation, so it won't work through overloading and you won't be able to use more then one computer at a time.

The only solution I know of is to get some static IP's from your ISP. My ISP gives me a block of 8 addresses for 20 a month.
 
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