re: Why does my VPN Keep Dropping? Friday, July 11, 2008 at 12:29 pm Windows Server 2003 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Jude Nihal Fernando (113 messages posted) appleoddity, thank you for that information, however. my linksys router has the capibility of forwarding the external ports to the internal network, like lets say i wanna have port 80 open on server 1 and port 25 to be open on server 2 and then port 8080 to be redirected to port 3389 to server 3 and 3389 to be open to server 3 as well. can i do port forwarding and port redirection using windows server 2003? how secure will it be? i am a bit concerned with the security of windows when it comes to connecting the internet directly to the computer. also, it appears that my internet connection ip address has been the same for more than 1 year on my linksys router. when i connect it directly to the server, i get a different ip address. will setting the same static ip work? On Friday, July 11, 2008 at 7:11 am, appleoddity wrote: > >I would definitely say it is a router issue. > >The only way I have ever set up a successful VPN on server 2003 is to install two >NICs on the server. > >One NIC servers the internal LAN, and the other NIC is connected directly to the >internet (WAN port on the cable modem). Routing and remote access is setup on the >server to NAT communications from the internal LAN to the internet, and all PCs use >the server as the gateway, DNS, and DHCP server. In other words, all LAN connected >PCs get internet access through the server which replaces the need for the linksys >router. Firewall settings are adjusted accordingly in RAS to protect the WAN facing >ethernet card. > >I tried a lot of different ways, but all proved to be ineffective, especially using >a linksys router. And all information I could find started with the dual NIC setup >like I described as the foundation. > > Written in response to: re: Why does my VPN Keep Dropping? (appleoddity: Friday, July 11, 2008 at 7:11 am) Responses to this message: re: Why does my VPN Keep Dropping? (appleoddity: Friday, July 11, 2008 at 12:49 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Why does my VPN Keep Dropping? (Jude Nihal Fernando: Thu, Jul 10, 2008, 5:51 am) re: Why does my VPN Keep Dropping? (appleoddity: Fri, Jul 11, 2008, 7:11 am) re: Why does my VPN Keep Dropping? (Jude Nihal Fernando: Fri, Jul 11, 2008, 12:29 pm) re: Why does my VPN Keep Dropping? (appleoddity: Fri, Jul 11, 2008, 12:49 pm) re: Why does my VPN Keep Dropping? (Jude Nihal Fernando: Fri, Jul 11, 2008, 4:39 pm) re: Why does my VPN Keep Dropping? (appleoddity: Fri, Jul 11, 2008, 5:01 pm) re: Why does my VPN Keep Dropping? (Jude Nihal Fernando: Sun, Jul 13, 2008, 12:21 am) re: Why does my VPN Keep Dropping? (Jude Nihal Fernando: Sat, Aug 9, 2008, 5:47 pm) re: Why does my VPN Keep Dropping? (appleoddity: Sat, Aug 9, 2008, 8:11 pm) re: Why does my VPN Keep Dropping? (Jude Nihal Fernando: Sun, Aug 10, 2008, 11:56 am) re: Why does my VPN Keep Dropping? (Jude Nihal Fernando: Fri, Aug 29, 2008, 1:54 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Server 2003 Discussion Forum