Unable to establish VPN or L2tp to connect to work
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 8:00 am
Posted by Beverly
(1 messages posted)
When I loaded Vista several months ago, I was able to establish a VPN connection
to work. Then, I was unable to connect (unable to find host or cannot autheticate)
for several months. Then able to connect when I used the IP address name, but this
lasted only a few days.
I have corrected the problem with 1723 port issue on the firewall (Norton).
When troubleshooting the VPN, I found that the virtual adaptor was not started.
I manually started it and still the problem. Then I found that the VPN was not enabled
in the device manager. I corrected this and again no luck. Then I had to go to
the Network Manager to active the network connection. Twice correcting all of these
worked. However, I have not been able to use these steps to connect the VPN.
I uninstalled the Cisco VPN provided by my work and tried to set up a L2tp connection
that has worked for the IT people on their home machines. I set this up and it worked
ONCE! IT tells me that they do not support this because I am using Vista and not
XP.
Interestingly, I am able to establish a VPN connection when I connect my laptop over
the wireless network at home. It is the destop that is the problem.
Any ideas? I have tried most everything.
Thanks
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