Re: PPC VPN woes

From: Eric Hicks [MVP, Windows Mobile devices] (e_dadu_at_nomospam.yahoo.com)
Date: 10/07/04 

Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:44:36 -0400

When you connect with PPTP is the connection dropping when you try to access
something through the tunnel or does it sit there doing nothing? It's been
a few years since I last used movian but when I did it worked well but for
the same auto connect reasons that you stated I had to go back to the built
in PPTP client. Someone else posted also a problem when they conencted to
their companies vpn, the internal network was on 10.x.x.x and the packets
would just time out. I'm still trying to find a resolution for that issue
but when using movian you shouldn't see that same problem cause movian
creates it's own routes. 

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"Jason" <jas0420@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:2d2957cf.0410070745.7b22f924@posting.google.com...
> Hi gang.  We just acquired 3 HP 6315's to eval at work, and for the
> past week have been trying to get VPN to play nicely.  I'm out of
> ideas and have searched the web til I'm blue in the face, so I thought
> I'd pick your brains...
>
> I've got 4 VPN options at my disposal:
>
> 1) PPTP/L2TP to a Cisco 3030
> 2) PPTP to a Cisco PIX
> 3) PPTP/L2TP to a Windows 2003 w/ RRAS
> 4) IPSEC with Movian to Cisco 3030
>
> I can get #1 to connect, but it drops off immediately after.  Have
> given up on that as an option.
>
> I can get #'s 2 and 3 to connect and maintain a connection, but I'm
> finding that I'm very limited in what actually works across the VPN:
>
> * I can ping anything and everything on my inside network that I want
> to.  Both by name and by IP address.
>
> * I've got a Telnet app on the PPC that works through it (can attach
> to any router I choose inside my private network).
>
> * Remote ActiveSync to my laptop on the private network would never
> fully attach though (it started trying to connect on both sides, but
> eventually timed out).
>
> * Terminal Service client won't ever connect.  Tried it to multiple
> servers.  Installed PocketHosts just to make sure it wasn't a DNS
> problem.  Tried by IP address as well to make triple sure.
>
> * We have private IM running on our Exchange servers.  I can actually
> attach to it through VPN, see who's online, send them messages, but
> the return messages to me fail.  If I also try to use the external IM
> client (hotmail account) at the same time, the VPN disconnects.
>
> I've had much better luck with Movian.  With the exception of remote
> ActiveSync and IM, everything else seems to work.  Orriginally, Movian
> wasn't a good solution for me because there's no auto-connect feature.
> Manual login every time, so keeping the PPC sync'd with email and all
> was not the background process that it should be.  Since then, we've
> installed Mobile Info Server and that is working great, so that is not
> as much of an issue any more.  Movian seems to be getting out of the
> "off-the-shelf" product business though, so I'm not too excited about
> investing in them.  And it is really to the point that I KNOW all of
> this should work through a plain-Jane PPTP tunnel, so I've made it a
> quest to get it working!
>
> I have read/understood that MS Messenger performs a local lookup of
> it's IP address and bundles it along with the message it transmits.
> When behind a WAP or VPN, it's going to pull that IP (192.168.1.50 for
> example) and the remote side will be trying to return to that IP
> (which it can't in our 10.x.x.x world...).  tried with a WAP set up in
> the 10.x.x.x range to where I could add a route to handle it, but
> still couldn't get it to go.  Found that you can change the binding
> order of the adapters on a regular PC to evidently get around this
> (move the Remote Access Connection to the top of the list) but have
> yet to find an equivelant for PPC.
>
> So that's where I'm at.  Frustrated, but not quite beaten to the
> ground yet.  Any advice/things to try?
>
> Many thanks,
> Jason

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