Re: Can't VPN or RD for 5 min. after logon?

From: Vincent Fatica (abuse_at_localhost)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:37:01 -0400

And it's no better in safe mode with networking. I could do only
limited testing. In safe mode with networking, there was a 10 minute
wait one time before I could send email (SMTP to internet), a 5 minute
wait another time. When I restarted in normal mode, the wait was 7
minutes.

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 11:45:11 -0400, Vincent Fatica <abuse@localhost>
wrote:

>On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:21:47 -0400, "Chris P. [MVP]" <msdn@chrisnet.net>
>wrote:
>
>>Vincent Fatica wrote:
>>> What's more ... the SYSTEM account apparently has full network access
>>> during the time I, an admin, do not. I run an SMTP server (as SYSTEM
>>> via the AUTOEXNT service) which can/does accept incoming connections,
>>> while I can't make outgoing ones with an email client. And I run a
>>> news server (DNEWS, a stand alone service) which can initiate NNTP
>>> connections (to "suck" news) at the same time that I cannot make such
>>> a connection with a news client.
>>
>>As I recall SP2 made some changes in the way that network related drivers
>>are loaded during startup. The idea was that if there were any filter
>>drivers that needed to be loaded, that network traffic would be blocked
>>until all drivers were loaded.
>>
>>Your situation is a little more bizarre as some stuff seems to be working
>>and others not. My guess is that you have a 3rd party VPN or firewall
>>service running on these systems and it is somehow interferring.
>>
>
>There's no third party firewall. I use IPSEC and SecurityPolicy to
>block most of what's outside North America (totally) as well dangerous
>ports on the internet interface. In addition, "sharing" and "client"
>are not bound to the internet interface (but are to the VPN and my other
>(LAN) NIC.
>
>That said, I still have the problem with any of the following on or off:
>Windows Firewall, IPSEC service, Security Center, policy-based firewall
>(assigned/unassigned), the news server, the mail server.
>
>I mentioned earlier that the mail server (as SYSTEM) could receive mail
>during the outage; true, but it cannot send mail during that time. 

-- 
 - Vince

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