VPN connets and works, but always drops after a few mins?

[Kris Sum]

Hi there,
We're running a win2k server and have it running NAT and Exchange , and we
recently setup a VPN (PPTP) connection through our DSL router. Clients can
connect to the VPN and browse / transfer files, but clients are always
disconnected after a period of a few minutes. We have tried numerous clients
but they all exhibit the same behaviour.

The DSL router is NAT based and we have configured the routing properly
(port 1723 is redirected to the server). I don't believe this to be the
problem.

I can't track down the problem any further - should I be looking into the
DSL router or is there something wrong with our server config?

Kris.

 

[Wajihy [MSFT]]

do you have session timeout set up on your remote access policy on the VPN
server?

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[Kris Sum]

As far as I remember, no, but I shall double-check again later. Client
connections don't currently last more than 2 or 3 minutes at the moment

Regards,
Kris.

 

[Wajihy [MSFT]]

most probably you have timeout set up

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