[ale] Verizon mifi and OpenVPN

[David Hillman]

This was unexpected.  I just got one of those mifi devices for road warrior
use...very nice looking thing.  The trouble is the IP addresses that the
device gives out are in direct conflict with our LAN on the other side.
 Both sides give out addresses from 192.168.0.0.  That creates trouble when
connecting via OpenVPN.  The OpenVPN setup is a routed one, with a route
setup on our Netgear box to forward traffic from OpenVPN to our LAN side.

Unfortunately, it is impossible to change the addresses given out by the
wifi network on the mifi device (option is greyed out).  Changing our entire
network to use 192.168.1.0 wouldn't work because that is what some people
use at home.  Some people use Airport Extreme, which is 10.0.1.0.  Still, it
is not an easy job to change our network.  Something like 192.168.2.0 will
work, but it is a pain.  The easier thing would be to change the mifi device
itself.  Anybody else have issues like this?  How does Verizon expect these
things to fit into a VPN setup when you can't change something basic as the
IP addresses given out?

Another thing is, how do you setup a network so that it won't conflict with
one of those things?  Is the only option to use a different group of private
addresses?
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