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<div> <font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">As a courtesy I'm letting you know that I've also posted the same question here:<br>
http://forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?t=51222 but have not received a useful answer.<br>
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</font></font>Hi there,<br>
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I'm really stuck establishing a VPN connection so I would really
appreciate your help. I'll describe the problem below:<br>
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1. I'm trying to establish a connection from computer A (client) to
computer B (server).<br>
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2. B is using a DG834G v3<br>
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3. Using <b>Microsoft's own Windows software</b><font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> (PPTP)</font></font> on both machines <b>the
VPN works fine.</b> I can connect, map network drives and access files.<br>
So I'm sure that static ip address, firewalls etc all work.<br>
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4. So, now I'm trying to use the inbuilt VPN software on the DG834G v3
router and this is where I'm stuck.<br>
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5. I think I've set up the incoming VPN connection correctly on the
router.<br>
I've used the wizard and selected "A remote VPN client (single PC)"
which I think is right since this is an <b>incoming</b> connection from a
single machine.<br>
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6. On the client side I've tried the Shrew client (2.1.5) using the
"default" settings and disabling aggressive mode (which the DG834G v3
does not support). The error message I get is this:<br>
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config loaded for site 'site.com’<br>
configuring client settings ...<br>
attached to key daemon ...<br>
peer configured<br>
iskamp proposal configured<br>
esp proposal configured<br>
client configured<br>
local id configured<br>
remote id configured<br>
pre-shared key configured<br>
bringing up tunnel ...<br>
<b>negotiation timout occurred</b><br>
tunnel disabled<br>
detached from key daemon ...<br>
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So I'm stuck as to what the problem is.<br>
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7. I also tried Netgear's ProSafe VPN Client but the issue there is that
I cannot even see the connection, when I right click on the ProSafe
icon in the system tray.<br>
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My preference is to use it with Shrew because (I could be wrong) it's
more up to date than the ProSafe client.<br>
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Really stuck. <br>
Any ideas?
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