Mn-500 VPN Passthrough finals

I have had the pleasure of learning alot about VPN trying to connect to a
Linksys WRV54G's built-in tunnels through my old MN500 router. I have read
lots of post from MS pros about putting my PC on the DMZ, turning off the
built in firewall and forwarding UDP 500 but, if my MN-500 is between my PC
and ISP, I can't connect the vpn. I am using the IP Security Polocies to
setup the tunnel on my XP home SP2 pc to this Linksys vpn router. When I
connect my Internet directly to my pc and receive a public IP, put the IP in
my Security Polocy, I can connect very well. When I put the 500 inbetween,
change my Security Polociy endpoint from 206.x.x.x to 10.39.68.35 I can not
connect with or without DMZ, applicatin triggered port forwarding (BTW, does
the name I enter in here matter? I have IKE) and/or firewall turned on or
off.

My settings do not use AH but use ESP. I have all the settings Linksys
recomends as far as MD5 and SHA1, PSK and IKE. It works great but the
microsoft router kills it. Hope you folks still remember this little guy.

Roy

The name does not matter for application triggered port forwarding. What
matters is the ports used. That is to say if you send on one port & expect a
response from another port this the the port forwarding you should use. (BTW
FTP does this with ports 20 & 21 IIRC, which is already built into the
router.)

Since I don't know much about the program you are running, you might want to
check out http://www.portforward.com/ to find out which ports you want to
forward. Also I'll give you some articles to help you with this problem.
I'm not sure which ones will help, but I hope at least one of them will.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814157
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817462
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823404

OK I'm now out of ideas. You might try a search on google for port
forwarding along with the name of whatever VPN software you are running.

"Roy Beaulieu" wrote:

> I have had the pleasure of learning alot about VPN trying to connect to a
> Linksys WRV54G's built-in tunnels through my old MN500 router. I have read
> lots of post from MS pros about putting my PC on the DMZ, turning off the
> built in firewall and forwarding UDP 500 but, if my MN-500 is between my PC
> and ISP, I can't connect the vpn. I am using the IP Security Polocies to
> setup the tunnel on my XP home SP2 pc to this Linksys vpn router. When I
> connect my Internet directly to my pc and receive a public IP, put the IP in
> my Security Polocy, I can connect very well. When I put the 500 inbetween,
> change my Security Polociy endpoint from 206.x.x.x to 10.39.68.35 I can not
> connect with or without DMZ, applicatin triggered port forwarding (BTW, does
> the name I enter in here matter? I have IKE) and/or firewall turned on or
> off.
>
> My settings do not use AH but use ESP. I have all the settings Linksys
> recomends as far as MD5 and SHA1, PSK and IKE. It works great but the
> microsoft router kills it. Hope you folks still remember this little guy.
>
> Roy
>
>
>