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(...) Ack, you got me started again... CURSE MICROSOFT! So, today I get approval for the VPN at work. The software says it only works with W98. I at least have W95 and they reassure me I'm ok. Well... I get the VPN installer. It tells me I need (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Cracking up.. replying to my own messages.. VPN is installed, but there are several routing issues where it doesn't get past my personal firewall, or they do but reply packets can't be routed back at W95. Ugh. (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Cracking up.. replying to my own replies to my own messages.. Upgraded VPC to 3.0, which under VPN no longer uses the W95's manually set IP address, so there's no routing issue... worse, my router registers absolutely NO packets returning from the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) NO (...) I don't know if this applies to your particular cable modem setup but watch out for this one. (URL) your personal firewall set to pass the GRE packets (IP protocol type 47) used by PPTP? You also need to open tcp port 1723 for the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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