VPN tunnel for em9100

I new to this networking, so I tend to mess with this and ask a lot of question. I was able to do a VPN connection within my network, but if I use router IP and the port, I could not connect to it. I have try the port forwarding, but it doesn't work. This is the same technique I use for my other Remote Desktop Connection. Could some one please help me?

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viafax999

Oh well, guess there must be something odd in your setup or you have not got the server or client end connections defined correctly.

If as you say it works from the inside and not from the outside then you should see rejection notices in the router security log if you are getting to the router. If there are no rejections in the log then you are not getting to the router which says that there is something wrong with your client end.

A last thought might be, are you using a client on your internal network to access the wan ip address of your router? If so that is your problem as that won't work. The external client has to be outside your network for this to work.

The setup as I defined works perfectly for me accessing external vpn connections and also for external clients getting to my vpn servers.

Best of luck

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viafax999

Which ports are you forwarding.

Remember they should say TCPAny -> the port number to be forwarded.

There is another poster here in the last several days that is also trying to do this. I've set it up too and so far haven't made it work, don't appear to be getting to the router correctly.

The rules I set are in the attachment

vpn port forwarding1.JPG

viafax999

OF course

VPN works much better when you remember to activate the firewall port forwarding rule. Did that and it came straight up using PPTP (port 1723)

VZ_Ron

Hi mangmang, I hope the information and link you was sent to you help because once you have internet access without using your VPN that's where our tech support stops. You will have to connect your IT department for further help with using your VPN.

mangmang

I did configure my port forwarding TCP Any->1723. I could connect within my home network, so I would think there are some in my router need to be configure. It gave me an error 868, so I did some Googling but couldn't find any solution.

viafax999

@mangmang wrote:
I did configure my port forwarding TCP Any->1723. I could connect within my home network, so I would think there are some in my router need to be configure. It gave me an error 868, so I did some Googling but couldn't find any solution.

If it works from inside but not from outside the it's something to do with your router fw rule as that fw rule has nothing to do with setting up an inside vpn connection.

Why don't you post a picture of it?

ctrl/alt/shift/print screen will capture active window (the rule display in port forwarding), paste it to paintbook and save as a .jpg and add it as an attachment in the resonse, or resize it and paste it into the response (will take about 12 hours before it appears to other users)