Re: Router VPN to SBS-2003

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IMHO it's not a good idea to mix routers and SBS for a Branch Office tunnel.
If you take 2 NetGear (or any other Branch Office capable routers) and
establish the tunnel directly into your LAN you will have a much better
result.

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Claus
"Reda Hanna" <RedaHanna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have an SBS-2003 Server installed with its standard Basic Firewall ...

After configuring RRAS, the Remote Windows Clients can successfully VPN
the
SBS-2003 and the performace is very good ...

My delima is when I have tried to connect a Branch Office using different
VPN Routers (NetGear - LinkSys) through IPSec but was never successful ...

Also, I have followed Microsoft Guidelines in KB:816514 for configuring
IPSec Tunneling in Windows 2003 Server and did all the recommended
settings
but with no luck ...

For example, the NetGear FVS124G Router VPN Log shows the following:
:: IKE phase-I negotiation started
:: IKE phase-I message not received after retries
:: Sending a Delete payload of protocol ISAKMP and Peer IP: 4568441c
:: Deleting the IsakmpSA

As seen from the above, the IKE Phase-I SA doesn't get a response and
after
(5) retries, it will delete the Phase-I SA proposal before even going to
Phase-II SA ...


Is there any other steps that I need to configure on the SBS-2003
Server-side other than creating the IPSec Policy ??? ...

Appreciate your help so that I can setup this Branch Office to connect to
the SBS-2003 ...

Thanks ... Reda


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