Re: Trap for young players

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This will be news for all the people who have PPTP links working with
UDP blocked. I can't think of any reason why this solved your problem. PPTP
links don't use UDP. L2tp uses UDP, but not port 1723.

Alanc wrote:
> I was setting up a VPN a few days ago and could not get it to work. I
> compared all the router settings to a known good connection and they
> appeared to be the same and spent hours trying to get it to work.
>
> The trap was I didnt compare carefully enough. On the non working
> system I had only opened port 1723 for TCP and not UDP. The moment I
> opened it for both it was successfull.
>
> I guess i am saying make sure you check all your settings carefully
> or you will spend many wasted hours like I did


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