VPN issues with Parallels installed

[David_r_laing]

Hi I am running Mac Lion with Parallels
Before I install Parallels, my VPN works fine. In Lion, I can set Wifi as top priority in service order, VPN as second and when I try to remote connect to my remote server, it can find and connect to it.

After I install Parallels, in Lion, I must either set VPN to top priority (Network service order) OR route all traffic through VPN before it connects. This happens even if I am not actually running Parallels.

it seems that installing Parallels forces my network traffic to go to my default gateway of 192.168.1.1 and never goes through VPN.

Also two more things, after this, I uninstalled Parallels, and the VPN works correctly in Lion. Second, I install Fusion 4.0 and it works just fine, however, Fusion is much slower and not as intuitive to use. I would prefer to go back to Parallels.

Would appreciate any advice.

Update 7/5/2012:

Found this in a further search ... hopefully this works. I am going to try it

http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=102178

 

[David_r_laing]

This worked!! Yay!

Hi

Parallels Shared/HostOnly networks uses subnets 10.211.55.0/255.255.255.0, 10.37.129.0/255.255.255.0 by default, but it is tunable

So, if this conflicts with VPN-routes, do the next:

From the menu Parallels Desktop -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Change Network Settings change settings for Shared/HostOnly networks to be
192.168.55.0/255.255.255.0, 192.168.129.0/255.255.255.0

 

[fahidas]

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