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The lack of forethought is not recent. We are having VPN issues. Several people want to work from home this weekend on their laptops to finish up month end tasks. Some of them it is the first time they have set up a VPN. Even though we have it setup so you just hit the VPN web address with a browser and enter your credentials and it sets your computer up it is always a hassle that could have been avoided a long time ago. I tried but "I didn't know what I was talking about." and "It doesn't really matter."

When you buy a router the basic setup makes your network a 192.168.1.X private network. Internet routers will not route 192.168.x.x IP addresses unless they go thru NAT, Network Address Translation, which is done in your router. There is also a set of private IP addresses 10.0.x.x that are reserved for companies to use that are also not directly routed.

When the IT department first set up the network they used 192.168.x.x IPs instead of the proper 10.0.x.x IPs. And a few of the main servers are on the 192.168.1.X network. Now when someone tries to use the VPN it works for everything except for any servers on the 192.168.1.x network. Even with VPN it thinks those devices should be on the local network. And since our main servers are STILL on 192.168.1.x someone has to talk the employee thru changing their home network to 10.0.x.x including any printers or other devices that don't use DHCP.

Well, I did know what I was talking about and yes, it does really matter.