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q: can you use a vpn setup on machinea from machineb by setting up a static route on machineb? i have a pptp vpn running on 'machinea' (set up in routing and remote access) to connect to a customer site. 
i have tried to create a permanent route from machineb with machinea as the gateway, but i'm unable to ping any servers at the customer site. should this work? 
the customer servers are on 10.0.0.x range and i have added:
route add 10.0.0.0 mask 225.255.255.0 192.168.0.17 metric 1
...but i still can't ping any machiens on 10.0.0.x range.

a: this can't work unless you also tell the machines on the other side of the vpn that they can reach your network through the vpn connection.
you need to add a static route on the machines on the remote network, such as:
route add 192.168.0.0 mask 225.255.255.0 10.x.y.z

where 10.x.y.z is the router/firewall managing the vpn in the remote network.
or, better, just add the route on the router/firewall itself.
if you don't manage the remote network, you'll need to ask whoever manages it to do this (assuming it's ok for them).

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