[Openswan Users] WinXP and "cannot respond to IPsec"

[Dennis Leist]

Paul Wouters schrieb:

>On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Dennis Leist wrote:
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>>I need to set up a VPN-Server located behind a Speed Touch Router. It's 
>>IP is static.
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>This in itself is a problem. A VPN server should not be behind NAT. Because
>only one of two parties can be behind NAT, not both. And your clients will
>be behind nat.
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Yeah, we work on that.

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> I would recommend changing the configuration of the speedtouch in 
> "single computer"
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>mode, so that the linux vpn server actually does the PPTP. Then the Linux machine
>actually gets the ip 62.3.4.5
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We try to solve it by two ways and check the best.

1. Our provider will give us an extra IP that is routed to the 
VPN-server without any NAT.

2. Try to use the bridging mode of the router.

Maybe the first is the better....I keep you informed.

ccD