Grief with Contivity VPN Client and 1010

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Greetings. I tried posting a message twice but got a 440 posting denied
error.
Anyway, I'm in a test phase for a project where people will be able to
connect and authenticate remotely to the office.

Right now I have a laptop directly connected on the public side of the
Contivity 1010. From there, I launch the Contivity VPN client, enter my RSA
credentials and hit connect.
It authenticates me, and I establish a connection to the private side of the
1010. If I issue an ipconfig on the laptop, it gives me my standard
network settings as well as network settings for the virtual connection.
The strange thing is, my virtual default gateway is the same as the virtual
IP address from the address pool I created. When I created the address pool
on the 1010, it asks for the ip range and a subnet mask. Nowhere does it
ask for a default gateway. The 1010 does have a default gateway defined for
both private and public sides but the connecting client doesn't know about
it.

When I'm connected, I can ping the private side of the 1010, the management
port and that's it. It cannot ping anything else on the private side
including the default gateway.
Systems on the private side cannot ping the virtual ip address. (I don't
know if that is suppose to work or not).

Anyway, I'm stuck and cannot figure this out.

Here are some of the concerns/questions I have:

1) Is what I'm using (Contivity VPN client and Contivity 1010) sufficient
for creating a vpn or is a vpn server required somewhere along the way?


2) Could some of my problems be caused by the fact that I'm directly on the
same network as the Contivity 1010 and not going through an ISP to get to
it?


3) Why doesn't the VPN client software know anything about the existing
default gateway on the 1010 and substitutes the IP address instead? Is it
suppose to work this way (same IP for both client and gateway) or don't I
have something right?


I'd truly appreciate any feedback or directions on where to go from here.
Thanks.