VPN Woes!

[Iztok Umek]

Not sure about your particular router/fw/vpn unit, but  try to:

1. use IKE over TCP setting
2. Use UDP encapsulation.

This might help or not.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <ronyoung at nc.rr.com>
To: <ncsa-discussion at ncsysadmin.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 21:35
Subject: VPN Woes!


>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
>
>
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