VPN Client Linksys Wireless, ADSL XP Error 800, Zone Alarm

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Make sure the XP patch has not switched on the naff XP firewall, I know for
a fact that XP sp2 does switch it on for security and you have to disable it

Hope this help

Glenn

"John" <john_hollings@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:8492a8a3.0408200808.50e3f8b0@posting.google.com...
> Hi All,
>
> I've seen lots of info about error 800, which I once got round, not
> sure how.
>
> But since upgrading my zone alarm and also applying the latest xp
> patch 31st July, I'm no longer able to vpn into my works network. I do
> not know if anything has changed on the works servers or routers, but
> a college can connect from a 98 machine.
>
> At home I'm running Zone Alarm, have a wireless network connection and
> a adsl connection. my isp provided me with a static address. my adsl
> to wireless router runs has a 10.0.0.* address, inside the wirles
> network is running 192.168.1.*. the adsl is using nat to the wan
> address of the wirless router.
>
> I've tried turning nat of, stopping zonealarm, seting dmz host in the
> wireless router. I belive 1723 is open etc, but believe this is a
> server site setting not a client configuration. I've set the vpn
> connection to use the remote dns and get address from server.
>
> Anybody got any ideas .... everything was working at one point, but is
> not now.
> not sure if its something to do with exposing my ip address, but I'm
> able to ping the remote server ... so route must exist back ?
>
> John