[vpn-help] new user, fairly baffled

[Howard Spindel]

In all likelihood, the laptop would no be directly connected  to the 
internet. I would be at the mercy of whomever was providing a hot spot.

Is there no way to get that to work?

>Hi,
>
>You laptop is directly connected to Internet ? (no NAT). Because the 
>NETGEAR DG834 support only the MAIN Mode... (and the VPN is buggy...)
>
>Regards,
>
>On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Howard Spindel 
><<mailto:howard at sci1.com>howard at sci1.com> wrote:
>I'm trying to setup a VPN that will allow me to connect in to my 
>home network (with a Netgear DG834Gv4 facing the internet) from a 
>Windows 7 laptop.
>
>Can anyone provide a cookbook for setting the Netgear VPN settings 
>and ShrewSoft VPN client that would enable the two to connect?  I've 
>been tearing my hair trying all sorts of combinations, but can't get 
>anything to work.  The VPN trace on the Win 7 laptop shows three 
>attempts to send phase1 packets before it hits "resend limit 
>exceeded for phase1 exchange" and aborts.
>
>I am a computer programmer with 30 years experience and lots of 
>networking experience, but I can't figure this one out!
>
>Thanks,
>Howard
>
>Netgear policy page looks like this right now:
>
>Remote VPN Endpoint: Dynamic IP address
>Local LAN: IP address is set to my local subnet
>Remote LAN: IP address is set to "Single PC - no subnet"
>IKE direction: responder only (only choice allowed)
>Exchange mode: Main mode (only choice allowed)
>DH group: auto
>Local ID type: WAN IP address
>Remote ID type: FQDN
>Encryption algorithm: 3DES
>Authentication algorithm: auto
>Using a pre-shared key for authentication
>
>
>
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