VPN and Linksys

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Googy

Can anyone tell me how to set up Linksys router for XP VPN Server
connections? Have opened up port 1723 to server, but no connections.

Thanks
 
You also need to configure the Linksys to allow IP Protocol 47 (GRE).
Linksys config may call this "PPTP Pass Through".

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Thanks,
Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

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Sooooo........ (On the "Host" machine)....Only port 1723.. No other ports?
And allowing PPTP Passthrough..

Another ??
On the firewall in front of the client machine..... I read somewhere on
MSFT knowledge base, I think, that all ports above like 1025 or something
have to be opened... Isn't that a heck of a lot of ports to be open???
 
I have setup a VPN and didn't op any ports on my XPp machine just enabled
ipsec, pptp, mtu, and multicast pass through in a UPNP Linksys router. Then
the connection can be made.
 
As Marc noted, only TCP Port 1723 and "PPTP Pass Through" enabled (GRE Protocol 47) will do the
trick on a Linksys router for PPTP VPN. No other ports are required. What model Linksys? You might
check for firmware upgrades also...

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Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)

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