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Multiple VPN connecions


From: Fernando Simonacci <fernando.simonacci () webred it>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:06:08 +0100

Greetings list,

I'm just dealing with a silly problem but that seems to me with no solution. Here is the scenario:


[ServerFarm(Cisco VPN3000)]<->Internet<->Router<->[pc.(Vpn Client sw)]


The company I work for, gives access to it's services only to remote pc.s via Cisco VPN client sw.

Everything works fine only if the remote router is a Cisco device (let's say 827, 837, 1720 or greater models) or remote pc.s are calling through a generic Internet connection (ADSL, Dialup, etc.). In such situations where the remote router is not a Cisco device, it seems that only a single VPN connection is allowed by the router itself and every new VPN connection causes the existing one to be dropped. I guess that the router drops the active VPN connection for a kind of security reason, related to the discovery of a routing modification due to the request of a new VPN connection, but I can't figure out how to work around the problem.

Having a single remote pc. working a time is not a good solution, neither is the whole substitution of remote routers with Cisco ones' :-) !

Does anybody have any suggestion?

Thank you all
- Fernando

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____________________________________________
Fernando Simonacci - Network Management

 WEBRED SpA - Via Manfredo Fanti, 2
      06124 Perugia (Italy)
PGP Key server: HTTP://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371
Tel.: 075-5027.463  -  335-1200934
Fax.: 075-5027.281


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