VPN one more time

[Guest]

I have a computer at work using Windows XP behind a Linksys BEFSR81v3 Router which I set up a VPN Host connection
I forwarded the 1723 in the prot forward ofthe router to the computer with the vpn host and when I try to connect to it from My home network using US robotic router, it seems to go to the computer to connect and starts verifying name an password then it comes up with an error 721... Any Ideas on this????

 

[Sharoon Shetty K [MSFT]]

Check if the GRE protocol is blocked at the router. Is the VPN server
reachable from the client?

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I have a computer at work using Windows XP behind a Linksys BEFSR81v3

Router which I set up a VPN Host connection.

I forwarded the 1723 in the prot forward ofthe router to the computer with

the vpn host and when I try to connect to it from My home network using US
robotic router, it seems to go to the computer to connect and starts
verifying name an password then it comes up with an error 721... Any Ideas
on this????

 

[Guest]

Protocol for Passthru on all IPsec PPTP etc are enabled the connect goes through to the verifying passwords then after awhile I get the error messege 721 Faile to respond. I forward port 1723 and 500 to the Lan IP address where the VPN Host is.

 

[Guest]

This is what I get in the router log

192.168.1.1] : System is ready
System is warm star
00xx@sys Firmware Version : 2.45.5, Sep 15 2003
Internet(DHCP) IP is 24.173.43.22
TCP from 24.167.77.103:1990 to 192.168.1.100:1723
greIn_ip_match !Foun
greIn_ip_match !Foun
greIn_ip_match !Foun
greIn_ip_match !Foun
greIn_ip_match !Foun
greIn_ip_match !Foun
greIn_ip_match !Foun
greIn_ip_match !Foun
greIn_ip_match !Foun
greIn_ip_match !Foun
Web login successfully from 24.167.77.10

 

[Jeffrey Randow (MVP)]

This one again...

Do a search for the greln_ip_match on the Linksys Broadband Reports
forums (http://www.dslreports.com). This was a known issue.

Jeffrey Randow (Windows Networking & Smart Display MVP)
(e-mail address removed)

Please post all responses to the newsgroups for the benefit
of all USENET users. Messages sent via email may or may not
be answered depending on time availability....

Remote Networking Technology Support Site -
http://www.remotenetworktechnology.com
Windows XP Expert Zone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Can't see it there, nor via google.

This one again...

Do a search for the greln_ip_match on the Linksys Broadband Reports
forums (http://www.dslreports.com). This was a known issue.

Jeffrey Randow (Windows Networking & Smart Display MVP)
(e-mail address removed)

Please post all responses to the newsgroups for the benefit
of all USENET users. Messages sent via email may or may not
be answered depending on time availability....

Remote Networking Technology Support Site -
http://www.remotenetworktechnology.com
Windows XP Expert Zone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

This is what I get in the router log.

192.168.1.1] : System is ready
System is warm start
00xx@sys Firmware Version : 2.45.5, Sep 15 2003
Internet(DHCP) IP is 24.173.43.221
TCP from 24.167.77.103:1990 to 192.168.1.100:1723
greIn_ip_match !Found
greIn_ip_match !Found
greIn_ip_match !Found
greIn_ip_match !Found
greIn_ip_match !Found
greIn_ip_match !Found
greIn_ip_match !Found
greIn_ip_match !Found
greIn_ip_match !Found
greIn_ip_match !Found
Web login successfully from 24.167.77.103

 

[Jeffrey Randow (MVP)]

Go further past 90 days... Actually I posted a response linking to a
specific forum back in March.. I'll check back there...

Jeffrey Randow (Windows Networking & Smart Display MVP)
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Can't see it there, nor via google.

This one again...

Do a search for the greln_ip_match on the Linksys Broadband Reports
forums (http://www.dslreports.com). This was a known issue.

Jeffrey Randow (Windows Networking & Smart Display MVP)
(e-mail address removed)

Please post all responses to the newsgroups for the benefit
of all USENET users. Messages sent via email may or may not
be answered depending on time availability....

Remote Networking Technology Support Site -
http://www.remotenetworktechnology.com
Windows XP Expert Zone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

This is what I get in the router log.

192.168.1.1] : System is ready
System is warm start
00xx@sys Firmware Version : 2.45.5, Sep 15 2003
Internet(DHCP) IP is 24.173.43.221
TCP from 24.167.77.103:1990 to 192.168.1.100:1723
greIn_ip_match !Found
greIn_ip_match !Found
greIn_ip_match !Found
greIn_ip_match !Found
greIn_ip_match !Found
greIn_ip_match !Found
greIn_ip_match !Found
greIn_ip_match !Found
greIn_ip_match !Found
greIn_ip_match !Found
Web login successfully from 24.167.77.103

 

[Jeffrey Randow (MVP)]

Here is one link:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9191501~mode=flat

Also an archive from the newsgroup:
http://www.pcbanter.net/showthread/t-454182.html

Jeffrey Randow (Windows Networking & Smart Display MVP)
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[Guest]

Well in the DSL forums page it only asks a question there is no answer to the problem in the expert zone I tried switching the PTPP setting from automatic and the same thing is happening.... Anyone have an answer to this ? I even put it in the DMZ to have total access to the computer with and without the ports forwarded and still SAME THING... Is there something somewhere in Win XP that I am missing I checked and rechecked over and over and only concluded that it has to be the software side of the Host connection somewhere......... Please help me find it..

 

[Jeffrey Randow (MVP)]

The key point was that it was due to the firmware... Downgrade your
firmware and it will work...

Jeffrey Randow (Windows Networking & Smart Display MVP)
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[Guest]

It won't hurt the Router to flash it with a previous firmware???

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Not at all--it may even be good for it!

Seriously--as long as the firmware is for the particular device, replacing
one version with another should be much the same--doesn't matter whether the
new one is "greater" than the old one or not.

I have seen bugs in firmware distributions, however--I believe there's a
Linksys wireless device I've worked with that did best if you reset
everything to defaults before flashing.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

The capabilities and the menus available sometimes change with firmware
versions. You'd be giving up whatever changed in the newer firmware
version--but you might also be regaining stability.

However, I'm not sure what to advise you. Linksys doesn't show any firmware
for this device at their web site. I've looked around a little bit, and not
found any links to get you.

You cannot use firmware for the other V.versions of the router--just think
of them as completely different devices--the firmware is not going to be
compatible.

You might try Linksys support, via email, with clear details about the exact
error you are getting, and whether or not it goes away if you take the
router out of the data path.

You might also try resetting the router to the defaults, and then setting
just the minimum options to do what you want to do. In particular, I've
seen instances where errors that were present with a host machine in the DMZ
of the router went away if that feature was turned off, and only the
required ports were forwarded to that host machine.

Looking back over the thread, Linksys Support seems appropriate to me--but I
don't have high hopes, I'm afraid.

Firmware upgrades can be done remotely if you enable that, and are really
willing to go on a limb, but it is much safer to do them locally--these are
like flashing the bios of a PC. There are certain times in the process
where interruption can be fatal--it is better to be safe.

 

[Jeffrey Randow (MVP)]

Yep.. Definately don't apply firmware for other versions on the V3...

On Linksys devices, I always look at firmware to be the cause of most
of the problems (as you can tell, I am not a big fan of Linksys due to
this type of issue). Linksys tech support may have newer firmware
that hasn't been published...

Jeffrey Randow (Windows Networking & Smart Display MVP)
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