I have a laptop running Windows 8.1.
I have IIS up and running. I have Web Services there.
To use my company's resources, I should connect to it's VPN. I need this VPN access, so my Web Services can connect to database using Windows Authentication. However, VPN was used (even if connected) only for those resources. So, when I was browsing stuff in Internet, sites saw my real ISP's IP and not VPN's.
Starting from today this was changed. Now, if I'm under VPN, I have company's IP and I can't access my laptop from anywhere. Previously, I could access it using my real IP.
I asked admin, what happed. The answer -
Split tunneling when on VPN has been disabled in response to US
Federal Government requirements.
So, everything is working, except access from outside to my local IIS.
Is there any way, I can put some local (on my laptop maybe) routing, so external can access my laptop?
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I have my own servers and have hosted a few services (game servers, web servers, ...), and use to host these on a publicly accessible dynamic IP using DuckDNS.
I have recently moved to a rural area and use a satellite service for my internet that does not support publicly accessible IP address.
I would really like to host these things again, but the only way I can think of doing that, is to have an IP somewhere in the cloud and route that back into my network. I have been messing around in Azure but I can't seem to get what I want working. I am not stuck on Azure, just happens to be the one I am message about with.
I have pfSense as my router, so I can setup a VPN client on that and pretty much keep that alive indefinitely, so here is what I am thinking and I hope someone can point my in the right direction, or if you like, poke holes in the idea.
I configure a VPN client on pfSense to be an WAN interface
create a VPN gateway in the cloud
connect pfSense VPN client to the VPN gateway
create a static external IP in the cloud
route traffic from the external ip through the VPN back to my pfSense server and into my internal network
once I get the traffic coming into pfSense , I can route to computers / VMs on my internal network.
This way, I do not need a publicly accessible IP from my ISP, I can connect to the Azure and use its external IP and route back through the VPN to my internal network.
If this was real hardware, I would have had this built in 30 minutes, seems this virtual world is messing me up.
Any ideas on how to configure this or maybe another solution?
I am struggling with the whole Azure setup and have watch hours of videos about each of the bit in Azure, but I am lacking some key bits of knowledge to bring this together.
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I have configured Azure P2S IKEv2 VPN and downloaded the VPN client (in machine it shows as PPP adapter) into 2 machines, one each in different countries. Say our IP addresses are 170.10.10.121 & 170.10.10.122 . From here on we'll call the site with .121 machine as site A.
My machine(.122) would like to use (.121) as a gateway, so that I could browse the internet in my computer using site A's public IP address. Is this possible or have I got this terribly wrong?
My end goal is that, we have multiple sites(B,C,D) that'd like to use the internal network as well as access public internet using site A. This site has dynamic IP address for public internet and port forwarding is not an option as ISP is non cooperative.
As shown in the below picture, machines PC-B-1,C-1,D-1 are trying to use the PC-A-1 as a gateway to access the internet through Site A.
Thanks.
what you need to do is installing the P2S on all PCs in all sites and setup a FW/NVA in Azure and route the traffic through that one or setup S2S from all sites to Azure and route the traffic to a FW/NVA in Azure. Basically you will need a NVA/FW in Azure to get the same IP for all computers. You cant use a P2S as a gateway.
Prefered solution is to setup S2S VPN with NVA to get the same IP.
So this is the setup I am using as a work around.
Since setting up a S2S is not an option for lack of infrastructure and lack of time,
As given in the question, I installed P2S VPN agents in all the machines that is involved, from the machine whose internet we wanted (in site A) to be used by others, to all the other machines (in B,C,D). Now that all the machines are in Azure Vnet, I installed WinGate application at Site A machine and activated proxy.
Then I configured proxy on the rest of the machines in sites B,C and D to proxy through the machine in Site A using its Azure Vnet ip address.
Machines involved are all Windows 10.
This might not be the best solution, but given the extraordinary list of limitations definitely this was the quickest and easiest.
Let's see if we can get better and quicker solutions for the same :)
Meanwhile thanks for all the suggestions :)
I have a windows server 2016 running in Azure with RRAS VPN + NAT.
I use this RRAS VPN to be able to RDP to my other VM's in the virtual network.
However, when I connect my client (windows 10) computer to the RRAS VPN, my internet will stop working on the client (because internet access is blocked on the RRAS VM).
How can I prevent the client from trying to use the internet that my RRAS VPN VM provides? I tried disabling the use-default-gateway checkbox, but then I can no longer connect to my other VM's in the virtual network.
Thanks!
According to this link it seems that when you disable the "use-default-gateway checkbox" that the default routes are not added to your machine. In specific:
If “User default gateway on remote network” is turned on, the VPN client on successful VPN tunnel connection adds the default route on VPN interface with highest precedence. This way all the IP packets (except those destined to local subnet) go to VPN server. If this parameter is turned off, the default route is not added on VPN tunnel. This scenario will require user to add specific network specific route on the VPN interface – in order to reach the corpnet resources
So, you are left with editing your routes manually to ensure that they work. You can do this pretty easily in windows by working with the route table. The following article gives the basics of how to set this.
Essentially you will want to run something like this:
route ADD <azure network> MASK <azure mask> <azure gw ip>
After you have done this, you should be able to use the internet (via your local configuration) and access to your Azure servers (via the route you created above).
Can I migrate my domain into Azure and still allow local workstations to join that domain? I currently have a setup of 7 workstations and 1 server. I'd like to move the server into Azure. It's the domain controller, DNS, AD, and file server. Is my scenario possible? I would just like to make it seem as if the workstation doesn't know the difference other than its now connecting to a different server. The end user would still work as they used to as well. I've found a lot of info on joining other Azure VMs to a Azure-hosted domain controller, but nothing like I'm looking for. It's for a small business setup and I'm new to Azure, but instead of replacing aging server hardware, I'd rather move it to the cloud. If only certain services are possible, that's fine, the minimum requirement would be just being able to setup a domain. I can setup file services through other methods if need be. Thanks!
According to the Description of support boundaries for Active Directory over NAT
The Microsoft statement regarding Active Directory over NAT is:
Active Directory over NAT has not been tested by Microsoft.
We do not recommend Active Directory over NAT.
Support for issues related to
Active Directory over NAT will be very limited and will reach the
bounds of commercially reasonable efforts very quickly.
The problem is that as part of the connection sequence the AD server will send its local IP Address for the client to connect to, so the client will attempt to connect to the address behind NAT.
The only way you can connect a client to an AD VM is to go through a virtual network. So as long as you had a site to site VPN your clients wouldn't notice any difference.
I'm trying to setup a VPN for internet access purposes (I'm in china behind the the great firewall) but I'm not an networking expert.
Someone out of China who has an Azure subscription created a package for allowing me to connect to that VPN with the related pfx certificate and so far everything, seems to be good, the connection can be achieved with a server located in Europe, the VPN server is 172.16.0.1 the VPN Client is within a range 172.16.0.X.
About the package creation he followed: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kaevans/archive/2015/06/05/configure-a-point-to-site-vpn-connection-to-an-azure-vnet.aspx
However, when I'm connected to the VPN I do not have any way to access to Google, I'm struggling to affirm whether it is a configuration on my side or just the GFW that is messing up. I'm struggling about my configuration cause it seems that there is no real connection with that newly defined connection:
I can ping the related server server when I'm connected to the VPN but there is no way to get access to google.com, however the DNS resolution name lookup seems to work at least.
Being connected to the VPN the lookup operation gives a me an appropriate result
and while I'm not connected to the almighty VPN:
I can still ping the VPN server when connected and vice versa when I'm not, which is quite normal:
Is there any way to check and settle that the internet access is passing through the VPN? I'm also thinking whether this can result from a routing issue, but when checking route print I obtain the following list, but I don't really see anything wrong:
Unfortunately Azure VPN Gateway drops any packets destined for the internet. It is not supported.