[Openswan Users] Weird problem with Internet Explorer proxy

[Albert Strasheim]

Hello

On Tue, 01 Nov 2005, Mark van Proctor wrote:

> The "Default" Settings are your "LAN Settings".

Yep, that's what I expected.

> As per the dialogue box in Tools -> Internet Options -> Connections, these
> are NOT applied to VPN connections, only direct LAN / WLAN networks.

That's what I expected.
  
> HOWEVER, you say that "Use Default Gateway from remote network" was turned
> OFF. Are the websites that you are trying to connect to (or the Proxy
> servers that you are trying to connect to) on the remote VPN network or on
> the public Internet? If they are are on the remote VPN network, then it will
> use the proxy settings for the VPN.

They are not on the public Internet or the remote network -- they are on 
the local network. This is why the problem I had (that IE couldn't 
connect to certain *local* hosts) is strange. Note that I pointed out 
that the default route on the Windows XP host was still pointing to the 
gateway it always does (the local network has many subnets, so a gateway 
is necessary here), not to the default gateway on the remote network.

Until I changed the VPN connection proxy settings (which should never 
get used, as you pointed out) to match the LAN settings, some local 
(LAN) hosts didn't want to work with Internet Explorer.

Cheers

Albert