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Tim - 04 Jul 2004 04:40 GMT

Trying to get my T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone (2003) to
connect through VPN to my home machine (XP Pro). When I
took my Linksys Wireless Router out of play, I was able
to connect (albiet slow). When I put it back, I can't.

I've forwared a ton of ports (including 1723) to this
machine, enabled PPTP pass through, enabled the DMZ,
stopped mac address filtering, and disabled the
firewall. What am I missing?

Thanks

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Sooner Al - 04 Jul 2004 12:23 GMT

Don't enable DMZ is the big thing particularly if you disable your XP ICF at the same time...Your
leaving yourself wide open to the bad guys...

Otherwise, have you installed the newest version of firmware for your router?

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> Trying to get my T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone (2003) to
> connect through VPN to my home machine (XP Pro). When I
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> Thanks

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Tim - 04 Jul 2004 15:02 GMT

Yep, did that last night.

I know it has to do something with the router because if
I take it out of play, I can connect.

thanks.

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>Don't enable DMZ is the big thing particularly if you disable your XP ICF at the same time...Your
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>Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
>Version: 6.0.714 / Virus Database: 470 - Release Date:

7/2/2004

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rgibson69 - 27 Jul 2004 23:38 GMT

Not sure if you're still having a problem but if you do a google searc
for "VPN" and "WRT54G" you'll find that your configuration is not th
problem, it's the router itself. It doesn't forward port 47(GRE
properly. Aparently there is a beta firmware on Linksys's site tha
fixes this problem but I haven't tested it yet. There is also som
hacked firmware available (I can't find the link right now) that turn
the WRT54G into a VPN server itself.

Rob
rgibson@robgibson.c

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rgibson6

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