Here is the situation:
I have a test lab with two Windows 2000 servers, one Exchange 2000 server. The domain is in native mode and everything works well.
One of the servers is multi-homed with two NIC?s.
Internal 192.168.2.25 Mask 255.255.255.0 no gateway.
External 63.205.208.172 (example, not real address). Mask 255.255.255.240 GW 63.205.208.161
This external NIC is connected to the Internet through our firewall and the firewall has the following ports open for this server:
tcp 139
tcp 1723
udp 137
udp 138
udp 500
udp 1701
I want to set up the server to be a VPN box so people can connect over the Internet and use Outlook to connect to the Exchange server in the test lab.
Here is what I do:
Open RRAS in my MMC
Right click my server and say configure and enable Routing and Remote Access.
In the wizard I choose VPN server.
I choose TCP/IP
I choose the external interface when asked to specify the Internet connection
I choose ?From a range of addresses? and enter a range of 192.168.2.50 ? 192.168.2.70
No to RADIUS
Finish.
Once it starts I try to connect from a client (on the Internet) and I get connecting, connected and then it hangs on Verifying Username and Password. Eventually I get error 721 the remote computer is not responding. I also notice at this point I cannot ping out to the Internet from the server. I get ?Destination Host Unreachable? for any Internet address outside of my LAN. I also cannot ping my VPN server from the Internet. If I kill RRAS I can ping fine.
I tried to go to static routes under RRAS tool and added 0.0.0.0 mask 0.0.0.0.0 GW 63.205.208.161 to the External interface. I get the same errors.
What am I missing here?
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