Netgear WPN824 client pptp vpn connections

We have an executive using a Netgear WPN824 wireless router at his home
office.

He can not make a microsoft pptp vpn connection thru this router to the
company vpn server. It appears that the wpn824 is blocking the
security response back from the vpn server to his laptop.

We have reviewed all of the Netgear online KB's regarding vpn
connections, the majority of which deal more with establishing
permanent vpn tunnels using the netgear routers, which is not really
the case here, we just need to make a temporary outbound client vpn
connection thru the wpn824.

However, we have tried enabling port triggering on ports 50,51,500,1723
as discussed in the online KB's although only port 1723 ( and though
unmentioned in the KB's - GRE 47 ) should be required.

Unfortunately these ports do not resolve the issue and we can find
nowhere that allows us to enable the GRE protocol which is probably the
issue?

Has anyone had any success with this?

We have tried the several times unsuccessfully, to use the email and
phone support at Netgear.

According to another post I located, the GRE protocol is not supported
on this router.

On the list of routers supporting PPTP is the WGR614 ( 54mbps ) - there
is a newer/faster model WGT624 (mbps108) - which is not listed. Has
anyone had any experience with PPTP connections over the WGT624?

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> We have an executive using a Netgear WPN824 wireless router at his home
> office.
>
> He can not make a microsoft pptp vpn connection thru this router to the
> company vpn server. It appears that the wpn824 is blocking the
> security response back from the vpn server to his laptop.
>
> We have reviewed all of the Netgear online KB's regarding vpn
> connections, the majority of which deal more with establishing
> permanent vpn tunnels using the netgear routers, which is not really
> the case here, we just need to make a temporary outbound client vpn
> connection thru the wpn824.
>
> However, we have tried enabling port triggering on ports 50,51,500,1723
> as discussed in the online KB's although only port 1723 ( and though
> unmentioned in the KB's - GRE 47 ) should be required.
>
> Unfortunately these ports do not resolve the issue and we can find
> nowhere that allows us to enable the GRE protocol which is probably the
> issue?
>
> Has anyone had any success with this?
>
> We have tried the several times unsuccessfully, to use the email and
> phone support at Netgear.

On 24 Oct 2006 10:29:07 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) wrote in
<(E-Mail Removed) .com>:

>We have an executive using a Netgear WPN824 wireless router at his home
>office.
>
>He can not make a microsoft pptp vpn connection thru this router to the
>company vpn server. It appears that the wpn824 is blocking the
>security response back from the vpn server to his laptop.
>...

Isn't the executive sufficiently important and your time sufficiently
valuable to justify a high grade wireless router that will save you
endless grief? Go with SonicWALL.

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