RE: LINKSYS and VPN

   Chuck,

   I don't know about changes - I'm the only one at home that has access to
   administer the router.  Should have been a factory settings except for the
   address.  I have even reset back to factory settings several times, and
   reset the address. From the start it would not let the VPN pass traffic to
   the iSeries network, even though the VPN did connect.  I have confirmed
   that from the iSeries/Sonicwall side.  I have a SonicWall appliance on the
   iSeries side, and a LinsSys WRT55AG on the network at home.  My Cisco A/G
   PCI wireless card connects me to the LinkSys.

   At 11:14 AM 10/20/2005 Thursday, you wrote:

     It is really interesting to see this Jim. About a month ago I started
     having
     all kinds of problems keeping a VPN connection to work going.

     We have SBC DSL "business class" at home (they called two months ago and
     offered that speed jump for next to nothing) and use the 2Wire Home
     Portal.
     I also had a Linksys router from when we have cable internet access and
     just
     continued to use that since we have multiple PC's.

     I would fire up the VPN client and be on for a VERY short time. Then the
     Home Network light would go out and everyone else would loose their
     internet
     connection.

     I would reboot the 2Wire and all would be OK until I tried that again. I
     thought maybe SBC had maybe put the quash on VPN (I've heard that some
     do
     this but not them) so I went Googling for that and got a lot of hits on
     the
     2Wire and opening up ports, etc. I did not feel comfortable with this
     because I knew I had changed NOTHING and it HAD been working fine for
     nearly
     year. I'm not sure what finally made me do this, but I connected the PC
     I
     was using directly to the 2Wire and walla - I was on via the VPN and
     stayed
     on.

     So I am still not sure what the Linksys deal did, but I have another one
     to
     stick in there and haven't done that yet.

     Could something have gotten changed in the Linksys router to cause this
     ?

     Thanks,

     Chuck

     -----Original Message-----
     From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
     [ mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Essinger
     Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:45 AM
     To: kirkg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
     Subject: Re: LINKSYS and VPN

        Hi Kirk,

        Yes - I am on a different network at home.  192.168.2.xxx (DHCP
     assigned)
        at home, and 172.24.1.xxx  (Static) at work.  I have, as a test,
        re-installed my old DLink firewall, and removed the LinkSys from the
        loop.  As soon as I did that, I can connect to work, get a iSeries
     Access
        Signon screen, and I have access to my work network, and can update
     the
        work firewall as the admin, just like I used to.

        So it looks like a LinkSys problem.  the LinkSys also locked onto an
        address assigned by the DSL router, and would not let go.  It would
     not
        respond to the wireless clients either.  After I rebooted the
     LinkSys, it
        still would not give up the address and acquire the correct and new
     one.
        There seems to be issues with this unit, and will others that I have
     tried
        at home.  i don't know if they are all poor quality, but I think I
     need
     to
        get in touch with whatever support I can, and have these issues
     addressed.

        I thought the LinkSys - being a Cisco product, would be a good piece
     of
        hardware.  It turns out to be a piece of something else! ;-)

       

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