Have to disable windows Firewall to connect VPN?

[Meal]

Hi,

I set up a VPN connection through windows XP pro SP2's new
connection wizard, and I have windows xp firewall as the only
firewall.
I found that if the firewall is enabled, the VPN would not connect.
Otherwise, it's OK. When firewall is disabled, I see from the logs the
following lines:

2008-03-03 13:13:00 OPEN TCP 192.168.1.111 206.191.121.211 1518 1723 -
- - - - - - - -
2008-03-03 13:13:03 DROP TCP 206.191.121.211 192.168.1.111 1723 1518
72 AP 1483709829 2369502654 65211 - - - RECEIVE

It seems the outgoing connection from 192.168.1.111:1518 to
206.191.121.211:1723 is OK,
but when the server connected from 206.191.121.211:1723 to
192.168.1.111:1518, the packet is dropped.

I tried to open the port TCP 1518 in the firewall's exception list,
but after another try I found out that the port of VPN on my XP is not
a fixed one. The VPN client just open a random port on my machine.

I think that means I cannot simply open a port on my firewall, but I
also found that I cannot add the VPN client as a program in the
exception list.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance.

Meal

 

[Meal]

Nobody can answer it?

 

[Yves Leclerc]

You have the possibility of setting the Windows SP2 firewall to allow the
VPN access through it, under the Advanced section.


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