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Re: [Openvpn-users] Linux-XP Incomplete Connection.


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] Linux-XP Incomplete Connection.
  • From: Leonard Isham <leonard.isham@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 08:36:03 -0400

I have not seen any problems with XP SP1 UDP and TUN (on 1.6), and I
have been running it since 1.6 was in RC status.  My initial test
including it staying solid for 5 days with out an incident.


On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 13:35:24 +0200, Tony den Haan <tony@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday 01 October 2004 09:34, Chris Mills wrote:
> >
> > Problem:
> >
> > My Linux-XP point-to-point tunnel connection is not completely connected. I
> > can ping the Linux tunnel adapter ip address from XP but I can't ping the
> > XP tunnel adapter ip from Linux.
> >
> > Software and Versions:
> >
> > - Devil-Linux Distribution (Firewall, iptables based running off CDROM,
> > floppy) - Openvpn 1.5 running on Devil-Linux (impractical to change this to
> > 2.0) - WinXP/Pro (SP1) (laptop)
> 1.5 is of course quite ancient, you could at least try a recent linux and see
> if that works, just to narrow down.
> 
> > 2) UDP packets are sent between the machines. I can see them using verb 5,
> >    and the sniffing tools. They are transmitted in lock step with the ICMP
> >    packets.
> 
> so far i haven't seen UDP work on my XP SP1.
> it also seems TAP is a safer choice when windows is involved,
> please give those a shot.
> i spent ages wondering what i was doing wrong until i switched to
> tap over tcp, especially because all documented configurations
> Just Work[tm] on linux-linux
> 
> good luck,
> 
> tony
> 
> btw: if you think this hurts, just wonder if you can configure any firewall
> you encounter to pass all the stuff ipsec/l2tp requires :)
> 
> 
> 
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-- 
Leonard Isham, CISSP 
Ostendo non ostento.

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