[TriLUG] Routing question

[Brian McCullough]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 09:49:49AM -0400, Greg Brown wrote:
> +1 for IPv6.  But that said I agree with Ryan's assessment that ranges in
> the 172.16.0.0/16 are far less used than 192.168.x.0/24 with the most used
> range being 192.168.1.0/24.  I'd set the VPN lan to something weird,
> 172.16.192.0/24 or something.. granted you could always run into a conflict
> but you are certainly more likely to find a conflict using 192.168.1.0/24 on
> your VLAN lan.


Thank you both.  Unfortunately, as I tried to express in my message, sometimes I am in an environment where I don't have control over addresses, and where there are direct conflicts, like the .123 example that I offered.  When I am at home ( home office ), I can probably affect the local end of the link, but when I am at Panera, I can not.

I gather from both of you, though, that setting my "local IP" on the machine to something in the 172. network, without changing any of the other environment ( either LAN ), just will not work.

I guess I will need to try and persuade the people who own the remote end of the VPN to change the addresses at their end.


Thanks,
Brian