Hi All,
You will have to forgive my complete noobishness on this but here it is.
I am responsible for setting up a vpn to connect our Sydney office to our NZ
office, we have just purchased 2 new linksys routers both RV082's.
the current topology consists of a cisco 2514 at the sydney office and a linux
firewall at the NZ end running iptables on debian.
The plan is to place one of the linksys routers at either end behind each
router respectively. so it would go
Sydney_RV082-cisco_2514---Debian_firewall_iptables-NZ_RV082.
we are getting connectivity either way fine, i can ping from the Sydney_RV082
to the NZ_RV082 find both ways, but upon attempting to connect the VPN, it just
wont establish a connection.
i have come to supect that the cause of this is that the iptables firewall is
port forwarding the ip from the NZ linksys router.
my proposed solution is that we activate a bridging mode on the iptables
firewall so that it just passes through the connection from the outside to the
linksys.
heres where things get interesting.
the iptables firewall is shared AND is not managed by me.
so im confident in getting the iptables firewall to use bridge mode but the
thing is i need it to bridge ONLY traffic headed for a specific ip address (the
rv082)
now if i can get it to do this i THINK this will solve my problem and get the
vpn to connect so here is my full wish-list.
1. Can i do this with iptables?
2. If i can, will this solve my problem?
3. What do i set the default gateway to on the NZ RV082... whereas it is
currently set to the ip bound to internal side of the iptables firewall
4. Is there a better way to go about this?
Thanks for any help on this, i need this solved in the next couple of days so
ANY helpful feedback would be really appreciated.
Cheers,
Ludi
