On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 08:28:05AM -0500, Jon Allingham wrote:
> If you have a NAT device you typically need to allow UDP encapsulation.
> This has to be configured in your remote access properties as well as in
> the client. The MTU problem seems to have been fixed if you are using
> NG-AI with the latest client - it has a much improved solution for MTU
> detection that actually seems to work. In the past you had to
> potentially drop your MTU quite a bit. If you don't have NG-AI then you
> need to do the ping test with the do not fragment bit set to determine
> the max MTU that can be supported between the client and the firewall
> host. In my experience, we often had to go much lower than 1492. I used
> to run with 1200 which worked well. You could usually make it into the
> low 1400s if you weren't on AOL.



Good Hints, thanks. I'll try that one.



> Make sure these folks aren't running the windows firewall.


That's another problem, it doesn't work with XP and XP Firewall,
but I didn't check this so far. Any idea what's the problem with
the windows firewall?


regards
Hadmut

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