Hi,
I been trying to set up my office VPN connection quite some time and till now, i still cannot make it. I need your help to guide me. thank you. My intention is to allow remote user access to my office network via dial-up internet access.
Here is my setup info:
I'm using Linksys befsx41 router (firmware: 1.45.3, Sep 26 2003). My server is Windows 2000 professional. The server is behind the linksys befsx41. Befsx41 is configured with a fixed IP address and the client is using dynamic IP. I already configured the router to forward the port 1723 to my server's IP address.
Then, when the client login to the VPN server, it verify the username and password. After that, a pop-up message said Error 628 the connection was closed.
I already refer to http://www.chicagotech.net
Can you pls help me to setup my VPN successfully?
thank you.
Newbie
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Have you turned off DHCP server on the linksys? There is a one-liner in the user manual that states that if you are using port-forwarding, turn off dhcp.
Have you tried with the server IP as the DMZ host?
GRE has no concept of ports, so you can't use it as either a trigger, or forward it.
Microsoft's story:
PPTP traffic consists of a TCP connection for tunnel maintenance and GRE encapsulation for tunneled data. The TCP connection is NAT-translatable because the source TCP port numbers can be transparently translated. However, the GRE-encapsulated data is not NAT-translatable
http://www.microsoft.com/w
GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) is at the same level as UDP & TCP, it is NOT a TCP or UDP port. A packet might be a TCP packet or it might be a GRE packet (or one of many other), but it can't be both a GRE AND TCP packet at the same time.
Some links for reading:
http://support.microsoft.c
http://www.techeez.com/lin
Essentially the header of every IP packet has a field in it to identify what type of packet it is. This is called the "protocol" field. This field will specify whether the packet is ICMP, TCP, UDP, GRE (amongst others).
It's a bit hard to explain without delving into a full explanation of the IP ptotocol and packet headers/etc, maybe someone else can better explain it...
Hi,
I didn't set the DCHP. I'm using a static LAN IP. and also i have a static public IP. I have tried the DMZ to point to my server IP. it doens't work as well. By the way, do i need to setup a DMZ server? how?
I just found a message in my VPN server(W2k Pro):
Remote Access Event ID: 20049
The user connected to VPN3-1 has been disconnected because the authentication process did not completed within a required amount of time.
I feel that the client able to connect to VPN serverbut failt to verify their username and password.
Do you have any suggestion?
Thanks.
Simple fact of the matter is there is no solution. You cannot pass GRE traffic from the outside to your network so you cannot authenticate. Linksys removed this capability shortl after they were acquired by Cisco. If you want it to work, return the Linksys and get a Netgear. FYI, D-Link has the same issue.
Hi All,
the Linksys is work actually. I just tested and found a solution to solve my problem!
Upgrade/degrade the linksys befsx41 firmware to Version 1.43.3.
ftp://ftp.linksys.com.sg/d
After that, i managed to VPN login via PPTP connection.
I also need to thank linksys technical support to assist me on this.
Try it now guys!
Try this. It worked for me. Download the SSH Sentinel VPN Client from http://www.olin.wustl.edu/
Then use this forum download and follow it's instructions to the letter. I was up and running in a few minutes.
http://www.broadbandreport
Try different firmware for your linksys router: like alchemy
Most of them contain have protocol 47 (GRE) openend. and can even function as vpn router.
google search:
http://www.google.nl/searc
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by: td_milesPosted on 2003-11-16 at 20:19:50ID: 9761413
Did you also setup your router to forward IP protocol 47 (GRE) to your server ?
reading the page at:
http://www.chicagotech.net
It says this towards the bottom:
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Which ports need to be opened for running VPN
A: PPTP VPN uses TCP Port 1723, IP Protocol 47 (GRE); L2TP: UDP Port 1701; IPSec: Pass IP protocol 50 and 51. Note: 47 is a protocol number and not TCP port. The protocol name is GRE. It'll make a big difference when configuring your firewall or router.
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