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Owner: Emmanuel Technology Consulting
Former Sophos SG(Astaro) advocate/researcher/Silver Partner
PfSense w/Suricata, ntopng,
Other addons to follow
Owner: Emmanuel Technology Consulting
Former Sophos SG(Astaro) advocate/researcher/Silver Partner
PfSense w/Suricata, ntopng,
Other addons to follow
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Thought I would provide an update. Increasing the timeout from 2 to 20 made a large difference, however, it didn't solve all the problems and just now I had another dropped connection.
It doesn't show up on the GUI. And, when it is down, if you try to ping the ASG internal IP address, all you get is a general failure message on Vista's command prompt.
What I think happens is that the connection does actually drop for a short period of time (1 min-ish). Open VPN doesn't catch it, but the OS does. This leaves OPENvpn in limbo.
I will try the L2TP configuration as well (later this week). Heck, I would even use PPTP if I thought it would work all the time.
William, I had reviewed that link some time ago. In fact, that is the one I used on the initial install. This is not the 'run as administrator' problem. I would also NOT recommend ever turning off UAC if you are the least bit interested in security in the first place.
Owner: Emmanuel Technology Consulting
Former Sophos SG(Astaro) advocate/researcher/Silver Partner
PfSense w/Suricata, ntopng,
Other addons to follow