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L2TP VPN RRAS Demand Dial

Hello

I'm trying to do something simple however it has turned into something complicated. I have two sites and trying to create a VPN tunnel using RRAS server. PPTP is working fine however If I try to switch it to L2TP I get security errors in event viewer like below:

A Demand Dial connection to the remote interface REAL VPN on port VPN2-4 was successfully initiated but failed to complete successfully because of the following error: The L2TP connection attempt failed because security negotiation timed out.

It has to be something simple...anyone have any ideas? I have the approrpiate 1701 UDP port forwarded.

Regards

Dan

dcarrion

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Okay I followed some instructions which shows how to setup L2TP to use preshared key with RRAS. This involves setting registry key for ProhibitIpSec to 1 and setting a preshared key authentication in the mmc snapin. I can connect locally but when I try to connect over the internet it chucks an error back.

I have forwarded port 500 and 1701

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dcarrion

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I think the problem I am having is that I am trying to use IPSec VPN behind NAT on a windows 2000 RRAS server. Apparently this doesn't support the new NAT-T (transparent) features...I guess I'm going to have to move onto windows server 2003 RRAS server or hardware VPN routers... thanks anyway guys...any other suggestions please let me know.

The_Maverick

Thanks "dcarrion" :)

I was trying to impliment mine on a Windows Server 2003 R2 Box, but had to settle for PPTP in the end - reading through the MS article that I posted the link for I was left with the impression that it was the NAT box (Zyxel Router) that was doing the corrupting of the packets, but I could be wrong.

I suppose you know that you can download a 6 month trial of WinSvr 2003R2 from MS for nothing to try?

Cheers,

Mav