Re: VPN Questions on SBS2003

All good answers from the others, but nobody has addressed the matter of the
Linksys router.

Give it a try, but if VPN clients do not connect using all default settings
to your VPN, don't bang your head against the wall trying to figure out
what's wrong. Just go immediately to the store and buy a <anything but
Linksys brand> router to ensure that your VPN clients will be able to
connect.

I am not slamming Linksys here; I am all for any company that produces great
products at a low cost, but my experience has shown, and it is well
documented that some Linksys routers, especially the older ones, fail to
allow clients to connect (yes, even with all of the VPN Passthrough options
selected) to a MS VPN. It has to do with the fact that those routers do not
allow GRE on port 47, if my memory serves me right.

Also, this is not true for ALL Linksys routers, in fact my current network
environment is running through a Linksys WRT300N and it works fine. Just
last week, after completing a SBS installation for one of my customers who
was running on an old Linksys that I had to replace, one of their remote
clients from out of state complained to the owner of the company that I
hadn't set up the network correctly, because he could not connect to the VPN
from home using his Linksys wireless router. I convinced him finally to go
get a Dlink, and sure enough, everything immediately worked.
.

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