Printing with Firewall Policy and VPNs

bolson7117 · #1 11-02-2010, 04:26 PM

hello all,

Notes:
Main Office (0.0/24)
Branch Albion Office (2.0/24)
Branch Fullerton Office (3.0/24)

Objective: Branch Offices talk to each other (printers)

Best Solution's: Buy IPSec VPN router with more then 1 VPN

Workaround: Not buy anything

I have 2 Cisco RVL200 IPSec routers, that im using for branch office VPNs. The routers only allow one IPSec VPN connection. Im using those connections to talk with the Main Office. Its not possible for me to do the translation at the main office on the firewall (Firebox X Edge X55e-W) Iv already talked with them, no luck.

What I have done is:

Albion Public IP --> Fullerton Private IP (0.3/24)
Fullerton Public IP --> Albion Private IP (0.2/24)

I cant ping just the IP but I can ping a port like 192.168.3.3:9100

Would anyone know an idea (firewall/PC) that I could set up the printers. I also set up a print share from the main office, but it takes way to long and times out when i try to print from the branch offices.

I would think all i would need to do is make the firewall changes and allow the ports. Is the problem that they are not on the same subnet. This is set up for the reason of the main office IPSec VPN.

Let me know what you think,

Thanks,

***ua549*** · #2 11-02-2010, 06:35 PM

You should be able to make a routing table entry for each printer or printer subnet.

bolson7117 · #3 11-04-2010, 06:40 PM

Could you go into more detail, Im sure I have already done this and I was able to ping the device on a port but not just ping or print to the other printer.

thanks

***ua549*** · #4 11-04-2010, 08:45 PM

You should be able to ping the printer just using the IP unless it is connected via a print server box such as an HP Jet Direct which uses port 9100. Bottom line is that you are pinging the print server, not the printer.

What happens when you do a trace route to the printer and the port number?

This seems like the PC's printer configuration does not include the port number required by the print server device? On the PC's having trouble look at the printer properties to make sure the port is configured correctly.