VPN Woes!

[ronyoung at nc.rr.com]

I recently bought a Netgear FVS318 router that is supposedly capable of VPN connections.  The friend who recommended it also gave to me (all properly licensed and everything!) a copy of Sonic Wall VPN client software.

I have been having one heck of a time getting an actual live VPN connection between my laptop and the router at home.  I have followed the directions to the letter on the Netgear site for the router setup and for their ProSafe client (which incidently looks almost identical to the Sonic Wall).

I am running XP SP2 on the laptop.  At home I am using RoadRunner and dyndns for DDNS.  The DDNS name resolves with no problem.  I have set the router up to accept and respond to pings and it does.

If I can get this to work at home I will feel lots better about recommending and then implementing it at work.

Does anyone have an idea how I might get these things setup to actually talk?  Should I use another client?  Should I send the Netgear back?  All these questions and more have been running through my head lately!

Ron