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Re: Connecting to a VPN


In article <CEC9B71A-8F20-4C89-9DDB-859A3F8B0D64@microsoft.com>,

Arthur Dent <hitchhikersguideto-news@yahoo.com> wrote:

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>Any one any ideas?

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    The best way to debug vpn connections is watch the traffic.  Some

vpn clients have very extensive diagnostics.  See if yours has a debug or

diagnostic window to bring up.  (If it doesn't you'll need a sniffer of

some kind like wireshark.)  You can look at the debug window and see where

the setup is failing.  There are several steps to setting up a vpn. Chances

are that a firewall, packet filter, or some such is blocking one of the 3

protocols/ports used.  That appears as a time out because the packets sent

are never acknowledged.


    A simple fix might be to disable packet filtering on the Vista side.


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