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Leythos,

I will give that a try and see what happens. I just want to be able to
learn how to setup this vpn stuff for security and knowledge. It
doesn't seem to tough when there's a router/firewall involved..:)

Question - I am thinking of buying the Linksys VPN router - do ports
need to be open for connections to pass through?

Also, once I am successfull with vpn - how do I go about setting up vnc
sessions, mounting drive volumes etc..etc. Right now I am using vnc
into my pc by port forwarding to my static ip but I want vpn
connection.

Dave

In article <1099277979.184437.7730@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
tvos@ureach.com says...

Leythos,

I will give that a try and see what happens. I just want to be able to
learn how to setup this vpn stuff for security and knowledge. It
doesn't seem to tough when there's a router/firewall involved..:)

Question - I am thinking of buying the Linksys VPN router - do ports
need to be open for connections to pass through?

It depends on what you mean by pass-through. If you setup two units with
a IPSec tunnel between them, then you don't need to "forward" any ports,
both sides are completely exposed to each other - unless you purchase a
firewall that's normally the case in the SOHO units.

Also, once I am successfull with vpn - how do I go about setting up vnc
sessions, mounting drive volumes etc..etc. Right now I am using vnc
into my pc by port forwarding to my static ip but I want vpn
connection.

Again, see above - a real firewall will let you setup a Tunnel, but it
won't let you do anything other than create the tunnel until you also
create a rule that permits traffic between the sides through the tunnel.

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Leythos,

Understood... I've tried and have basically exhausted every attempt
made by getting this vpn to work. A friend who has cable modem with
comcast tried connecting into my network via vpn didn't work either.

I installed a log viewer from linksys to monitor to the inbound traffic
but it looks like his inbound vpn connection wasn't registering in my
logs. I wonder if I'm doing something wrong in the setup config part of
it?

Tvos

In article <1099400039.598643.239070@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
tvos@ureach.com says...

Leythos,

Understood... I've tried and have basically exhausted every attempt
made by getting this vpn to work. A friend who has cable modem with
comcast tried connecting into my network via vpn didn't work either.

I installed a log viewer from linksys to monitor to the inbound traffic
but it looks like his inbound vpn connection wasn't registering in my
logs. I wonder if I'm doing something wrong in the setup config part of
it?

I use WallWatcher and have it setup to display INBOUND LAN (and log
inbound), in WW I could see the 1723 make it in (to the local IP) and
1723 make it out, but I could not see GRE (WW doesn't log it) - that's
what was killing me on testing - I figured if 1723 was working that GRE
would also work (as it did in the older firmware).

If you install WallWatcher, enable logging in the router, and don't see
1723 inbound to a local IP, then you don't have your internet connection
or your VPN setup right on the client side - meaning it's never making
it to the server.

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Leythos,

I've been using linksys logview and am impressed by the application. I
have it setup for inbound/outbound connections. I will try it again and
see what happens. Btw: What is "GRE" mean?

Tvos

Leythos,

I've been using linksys logview and am impressed by the application. I
have it setup for inbound/outbound connections. I will try it again and
see what happens. Btw: What is "GRE" mean?

Tvos

Leythos,

I've been using linksys logview and am impressed by the application. I
have it setup for inbound/outbound connections. I will try it again and
see what happens. Btw: What is "GRE" mean?

Tvos

In article <1099620195.674989.40150@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
tvos@ureach.com says...

Leythos,

I've been using linksys logview and am impressed by the application. I
have it setup for inbound/outbound connections. I will try it again and
see what happens. Btw: What is "GRE" mean?

GRE is the second part of the PPTP connection.

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tvos@ureach.com wrote:

Leythos,

I've been using linksys logview and am impressed by the application. I
have it setup for inbound/outbound connections. I will try it again and
see what happens. Btw: What is "GRE" mean?

Tvos

GRE = Generic Routing Encapsulation

It's a method to encapsulate packets, to be carried over an IP network. It
appears as an ethernet protocol, various networking protocols.

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These boards have proved useful to me so I registered, but as to this IP Protocol 47 GRE problem?......I tried the suggestion and it works. My cousin and I did it using 2 XP machines. Mine dual-boots to Server 2003, which I will try next. In the router settings you did have to forward ports 1723 and 47 to your computer, using the BEFSR41 router anyways.
My cousin uses a Belkin high speed Wireless G Router and it did not work from me to him. His router is nice but weird. When he makes changes he loses his internet connection. Also since we got it work from him to me we tried to LAN Play a game (Need for Speed Most Wanted) and it did not work. He could see the game server name I chose but could not connect to me. Other than that he could see my files that I had in my shared folder. Not sure what the problem there is...If anybody has an idea, reply.