Able to to ping through to private network without tunnel

[bigpa]

Hello,

I'm scratching my head at still being able to ping through to my private network (latest access server d/l) without a tunnel being active.

If I stop the VPN service, the pings stop, so obviously it is the VPN service that is routing through to NIC of the other host inside private LAN.

Interestingly, where I can ping through to the NIC on the other private host (VPN service running, but no active tunnel)... the second (private) NIC on the VPN AS box isn't pingable - which is as expected.

You guys have any ideas ?

Much appreciation in advance,

BP

[bigpa]

Forgive me, I was being foolish (in a vmware workstation networking way) - can this be closed please ?