Set up a VPN server, connected to it a work with the laptop and FAX line.
Brought the laptop home, nothin’.
The dial up at home runs about 26K, at work 52k.
Is VPN picky about speed or noise on the line?
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What kind of VPN are you talking about? IPSec? SSL?
What vendor is the server? Windows? Cisco? Checkpoint? OpenVPN? OpenS/WAN?
What about the client? Or are you doing firewall-to-firewall or site-to-site?
What about your general network topology? Are you being NATed when you dial out from home? Are you positive that you actually authenticated from your work location? Did you just hook up a modem to a workstation or something?
Sounds like a bunch of dumb questions, but there are an amazing number of variables that you have to get just right for a connection to work, especially with traditional IPSec.
Regarding your actual question: speed and line noise shouldn’t matter - you’re still running over TCP. In practice, though, you could be dropping a lot of packets which would screw up the sequence numbers and/or the IPSec negotiations.
Windows XP server and client, set to automatic, which a presume means PPTP.
Didn’t work NATed, I assigned a static IP address to the server and gave it a list of IPs to hand out. I had to list the IPs and server names in HOSTS before I could map drives. I used the same provider from the FAX line and home on the same laptop with the wireless card turned off.
Maybe something happened to the PC at work.
I have a dumb question. I’ve always used VPN to connect to the office network via an existing broadband connection. It sounds like you’re trying to use the VPN connection via a dial-up connection. In that case, why not just make a dial-up connection directly to the office network?
The agency who runs the firewall has closed access for remote desktop. PC Anywhere requires equipment and phone lines I don’t have.