RE: Remote Connection Problems via Cisco VPN over high speed internet.

We are having something similar. Did you find any answers? We upgraded
using cisco vpn 4.6. vpn 5000 was working before.
--
Mike

If data falls in the woods and nobody is there to see it ....... ?


"rklaassen" wrote:

> ODBC application cannot connect to the SQL Server database.
> Error received: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Timeout expired.
> Error # is 20085 (which from articles on MSDN is a Remote Access Server
> error).
>
> This problem occurs only for Remote Users connecting through our Cisco VPN
> on a fast Internet connection. Dialup connections work fine. Sometimes
> repeated attempts will eventually connect, but some users can't connect at
> all. ALL other network functions (Outlook, file shares, intranet sites, etc)
> work fine though the VPN connection -- only the ODBC application doesn't
> work.
>
> This problem started several months ago so possibly some security update may
> have affected these users. But we haven't found anything to rectify the
> problem.
>
> The application accesses a SQL Server 7 database running on Windows NT4
> server but the problem has been duplicated on a SQL Server 2000 database
> running on Windows 2000 server. Clients are Windows 2000 and Windows XP
> (with applicable service packs and security updates).
>
> I would appreciate any suggestions/help/solutions to the above problem.
> Users are a bit angry about using dialup for the ERP app, while they can do
> everything else at high speed.
> --
> Ray
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