RVL200 Simple Setup

The Linksys RVL200 is an inexpensive 4-Port SSL/IPSec VPN Router that can be used to allow you to establish a SSL VPN connection back to your surgery.  You can also use two of them to link two offices together.

This is a short description of how to setup the RVL200 on Telstraclear cable network so that a client on the internet can establish a VPN connection.  A Linksys WRT54g wireless router is attached to the RVL200. 

Internet <=> Cable Modem <=> Linksys RVL200 <=> Linksys WRT54G <=> Local Area Network 

The cable modem has a static IP address. Eg.

IP: 203.97.98.100 with a gateway of 203.97.98.1

Our LAN uses the 192.168.1.0 - 192.168.1.254 address range. Our Linksys WRT54g sits on this network.  We need to give our RVL200 a LAN address on a different address range, and so we will use 192.168.0.1

We set up the static ip address lower down on the same page.

 We now need to establish some VPN users.  Ordinarily they should be standard users and not administrators

Incoming VPN clients can be assigned an IP address from an address range.

You can do stuff like port forwarding for applications accessed via the VPN.  See Setup/Forwarding.  Note that the RVL200 acts like a normal router for non SSL traffic, and so port forwarding works as one expects.

Now we are going to connect our WRT54G to one of the 4 network ports.  This is the setup port on the WRT54G.  The WAN port on the WRT54G points to the RVL200