When I connect my domain laptop from home to our company network through VIA, I can see there's 2 active NICs in Windows.
1: the real NIC, that's connected to my home network. This is classified as a Public net work in Windows.
2: the VIA NIC, connected to my company network. This is classified as a Domain network in Windows.
Now, I take a look at the firewall settings. Firewall is enabled, for both Domain networks and for Public networks. Other PC's on the company network are unable to ping my laptop, because of the firewall.
If I disable the Windows firewall for both Domain networks and Public networks, they are able to ping my laptop. However, this is not secure. I don't want other devices on my home network to be able to connect to my laptop, I only want other devices on the company network to be able to connect to it.
So, I disable the Windows firewall for Domain networks, but enable it for Public networks. Problem: company PC's are unable to ping my laptop now. They can only ping it when Windows firewall is disabled for Public networks as well.
Does anyone know how I can make this work the way I want it to? It would seem to me the Ping is tunneled throught the encrypted VIA connection to my laptop. So how would the firewall for the Public home connection be able to filter this? It's strange, isn't it?