I recently was relating on the list how a client was having a problem with their Linksys BEFSX41 router and the solution was that Linksys RMA'd the router. They apparently have removed the BEFSX41 model from their active product list so they sent me a BEFVP41 v2 model. I received it yesterday, configured it and tested it from my office network. The router was set to obtain it's WAN address dynamically from it's WAN connection. It connected fine to a wireless bridge that I use for this purpose and I could surf the web from behind it with a PC. I then configured the VPN tunnel exactly as the old router was set up and it immediately connected to the customer's end point and I could ping systems located at the end point LAN. I tore down the setup and put the router in a container to set up at my client's location this morning.
I got to the client site and thought that all that was going to be necessary was to set the WAN address of the Linksys router to match the static address being provided by Comcast at the customer location. As soon as I did that I was able to connect to the internet from behind the router. But I then noticed that the VPN was not connected. Since the VPN settings were identical to the previous router there shouldn't have been a problem. For the fun of it I set the router to obtain it's WAN address dynamically and immediately the VPN tunnel connected. I checked the logs but didn't see anything obviously wrong. I did notice that when the router is setup to use a dynamic address, it has the correct date and time. When it's set up with a static address the status page says "time unavailable". I think this might be part of the problem. If the router doesn't know the time (perhaps the clock can't be used?) then the VPN connection might not work. I'm also puzzled as to what server it's requesting date/time data from. It has the ability to manually set the time zone but doesn't give any choices as to which ntp server to use. Does anyone have any ideas? So far Linksys support hasn't been very useful. -Alex _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/