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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 -- ____________________________________________ 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 -- ____________________________________________ 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
Current thread:
- Multiple VPN connecions Fernando Simonacci (Jan 24)
- RE: Multiple VPN connecions Thomas T. Evans, III (Jan 24)
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- RE: Multiple VPN connecions Doll, Josh (Jan 25)