3/12 I spent a whole day on this to no avail. Using the Nortel Contivity
client, logging into work suddenly stopped working (gets stuck on
"banner text"). Rebooted laptop, checked with the VPN administrator,
checked with the cable company, check the belkin router -- no changes
anywhere, just stops working. Laptop works fine from a different
network, and a different machine on the same network can't get in
either, so it's the home network. Tried rebooting router, checking
all the settings in the router, outgoing connections (VPN uses UDP
port 500) not blocked. Tried putting the machine in the DMZ, didn't
work either. Just will not work. Did I miss anything? -eric
\_ What happens if you try using the cable connection directly
(i.e., without the router)? If that works, maybe your router is
dying.
\_ Forgot to mention that EVERYTHING works except using the VPN.
\_ Well clearly, something somewhere has changed. The admins
aren't always aware of changes either; you'd probably be
giving them too much credit if you assumed they were
authoritative. Also, Nortel VPN (among others) uses
non-TCP/UDP packets, so likely these are getting blocked or
mishandled somewhere. It would not be immediately obvious
since the majority of traffic is either TCP or UDP. |
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