SparksTSA
join:2001-10-23
Summerville, GA
|  URGENT - VPN Help
I have a VPN connection on my desktop, so that I can connect to work and remote control our servers and telnet to our AS/400 and RS/6000. This has been working great until now. I replaced my D-Link DI-604 router with a Netgear WGR614v2, so that I can have wireless in the house. I installed it last night and just now tried to use my VPN connection. It connects, but just sits at verifying user name and password. I know it is working on the other end, I called a co-worker and he was able to VPN using his comcast connection. I placed my desktop in the router's DMZ, but that didn't help. Need some quick expertise on this. |
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stan999
Premium,VIP
join:2001-11-19
Fort Worth, TX
| said by SparksTSA  :
I have a VPN connection on my desktop, so that I can connect to work and remote control our servers and telnet to our AS/400 and RS/6000. This has been working great until now. I replaced my D-Link DI-604 router with a Netgear WGR614v2, so that I can have wireless in the house.
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Ic3wind21
join:2003-10-01
Rochester, MN | reply to SparksTSA
did you try opening whatever port your vpn software is running on to your computer's ip??? I've noticed that setting it as the "DMZ" isn't 100% reliable |
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SparksTSA
join:2001-10-23
Summerville, GA
| reply to SparksTSA
OK... made a discovery
I set everything back to factory defaults and the VPN connection now works. Started making all my custom changes, one at a time, and trying VPN connection. The culprit: I had checked Disable SPI Firewall because my bandwidth tests were averaging around 930K instead of 2M+ that I was getting before with the D-Link DI-604. I had read that disabling the SPI firewall would speed things back up, and it did, at the cost of my VPN connection. Wonder why that is? |
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nozero
Eschew Obfuscation
Premium,MVM,ExMod 2003-06
join:1999-12-29
InnerSanctum
clubs: | That is odd. This week I just got a WGR614 (not ver 2) with SPI on and, Comcast connection, and can connect using Check Point VPN-1 SecureClient. FWIW... |
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SparksTSA
join:2001-10-23
Summerville, GA | reply to SparksTSA
That's just it... With SPI firewall enabled, VPN works, but my bandwidth is cut to 900K up / 60k down. With SPI firewall disabled, VPN doesn't work, buy my bandwidth is as advertised (2mb down / 128K up) |
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