SSH Sentinel & Linksys BEFVP41 Problem

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John:

That error msg. is a generic one-it simply means you are not getting
a response on the other end.

What version of Sentinel are you using? 1.4 at a minimum is highly
recommended. I had a lot of trouble with 1.3.2.2.

Have you set your XP firewall/any other firewall you have to
allow ipsec passthrough (if it's built in) or allow UDP port 500
through?

Both Sentinel and your router keep logs. My firewall keeps very
detailed logs of IKE negotiations. Look through your router and
Sentinel logs to get what are likely to be very detailed clues. You
need to enable IKE logging in Sentinel. The dialog box is a bit
tricky-read it carefully.

Oh yeah-and I suggest you don't use detailed loggingn in Sentinel,
or you'll get a log file that's about 1,000 lines long.

9 times out of 10, IPSEC problems are because of a settings mismatch
between one end and the other.

Dave



On 10 May 2004 19:23:17 -0700, v12_benz@hotmail.com (John Konstas)
wrote:

>Hi, I have a Linksys BEFVP41 with the latest firmware and I am trying
>to connect to it with the SSH Sentinel 1.4 installed on my Win XP Pro
>with the built-in firewall enabled.
>
>I followed the following setup document:
>forum.homenethelp.com/SSH_Sentinel_and_Linksys_VPN_-_Another_Setup_Document/
>m_5590/tm.htm
>
>But I always get the following error message: "Cannot open the VPN
>connection. Check that the gateway is online and verify that you are
>using the correct authentication key."
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>
>John