Set up VPN, Win2k, Linksys BEFSR41 router

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I'm a novice so buyer beware OK? Have you tried to ping router website? I
did that,could not connect. After two days of phone calls senior tech said I
had bad router. New one on way. Linksys NR041 is my model. Loren (Just
another thing to chk)
"Yair Sageev" <geekyheeb-news@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I'm having trouble getting a VPN to work with my router and win2k and am
> wondering if somebody here can tell me what I am doing wrong.
>
> What I did:
>
> On the router, enabled port forwarding:
>
> Ipsec, port 500 to 500, TCP and UDP, to my machine's IP (192.168.1.88)
> PPTP, port 1723 to 1723, TCP and UDP, to my machine's IP (192.168.1.88)
> GRE, port 47 to 47, TCP and UDP, to my machine's IP (192.168.1.88)
>
> IPSEC and PPTP pass through are both enabled.
> Block WAN request is enabled.
> Multicast Pass through is disabled.
>
> On my workstation (win2k pro) I created a new network connection by
> selecting "accept incoming connections", and so forth. I have an account
on
> my machine with limited priveleges for use with the VPN.
>
> When I try to connect locally over the LAN using the 192.168.1.88 IP
> address, everything works fine. But when I try to connect from home using
> the static IP of the router, I get error 721.
>
> Am I making a minor mistake or am I totally unclear on the concept?
>
> Thanks in advance.
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Thank you, I didn't realize that the passthrough was outgoing only.


"Jason" <54235432@truedesign.org> wrote in message
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> Yair Sageev wrote:
>
> > I'm having trouble getting a VPN to work with my router and win2k and am
> > wondering if somebody here can tell me what I am doing wrong.
> >
> > What I did:
> >
> > On the router, enabled port forwarding:
> >
> > Ipsec, port 500 to 500, TCP and UDP, to my machine's IP (192.168.1.88)
> > PPTP, port 1723 to 1723, TCP and UDP, to my machine's IP (192.168.1.88)
> > GRE, port 47 to 47, TCP and UDP, to my machine's IP (192.168.1.88)
>
> GRE is not port 47; it is IP protocol 47. Generally these consumer
> router devices don't give you enough control to forward entire protocols
> like that. You may be able to set your machine as the DMZ and get it
> to work, but i wouldn't be surprised if you just won't be able to accept
> incoming MS PPTP VPN connections. The PPTP passthru that the router is
> referring to is meant to be outgoing (VPN client is behind the router on
> your LAN side, VPN server is out on the internet somewhere).
>