RE: aol and cisco vpn

The problem is probably not with the browser but with AOL itself.  Because
of the NAT scheme they use, virtually every packet sent over AOL has a
different "from address".  This causes havock with things that are trying to
keep track of your sessions.

My suggestion? Have the customer get a real ISP.

Bob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Chuck Lewis
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 1:08 PM
> To: 'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'
> Subject: RE: [PCTECH] aol and cisco vpn
> 
> Jim,
> 
> That sounds like a weird one. I know the 3 PC's I have at home have AOL on
> them (the kids do IM) and I have had no trouble loading the Cisco VPN
> client. We do not use the full AOL browser on any of them so maybe that is
> different ?
> 
> Also sent CD's to our sales folks to load and I know some of them were
> connecting to the internet via AOL (so had to be using the AOL browser)
> with
> no problems (?).
> 
> Have you checked with Cisco ? We are using Cisco VPN Client Version
> 4.0.2(D)
> on W2K and XP boxes.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Jim Franz
> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 9:10 PM
> To: pctech
> Subject: [PCTECH] aol and cisco vpn
> 
> Customer purchased vpn access to their network from Bellsouth,
> who in turn lets you download a Cisco vpn client.
> Big warning in docs says "not compatible with AOL".
> We don't know if this means cannot have AOL browser running, or
> cannot have AOL on the machine. !st user to download client -
> it will not install (the self extracting file does not extract the
> setup.exe),
> & 5 hrs of Bellsouth Tech Support couldn't figure it out.
> Then user admitted has AOL (not started, but loaded on the pc (
> with XP Pro).
> Anyone know what the story is?
> jim
> 
> 
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