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BefVP41 fails DDNS--Get dif router or try beta frmware?
Two comments about DDNS with Linksys: 1) These routers support DDNS but not "custom DNS" meaning you can put in an address like "example.dyndns.org" but not "dyndns.example.org" 2) Am I mistaken that if you click the "apply" button too frequently, it...- snsh
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- Forum: Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
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VPN problem
Maybe your VPN problems are due to subnetting. I once worked on a startup's LAN that grew quickly to about 500 hosts (two octets worth). This tranformed one network into two, but the subnet mask stayed 255.255.255.0 when it should have changed to at least 255.255.252.0. And all our NT4 domain...- snsh
- Post #4
- Forum: Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
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Nortel Contivity and Linksys BEFSR41/81 - Multiple VPN Tunnels
"$1000 versus $200" compares the hardware costs, but my experience with VPN has taught me that support costs overwhelm hardware costs. A $125/hr network engineer can easily spend half a day troubleshooting a $75 Linksys box. And the same engineer can spend a whole day troubleshooting...- snsh
- Post #8
- Forum: Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
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Information on setting up a VPN with a Linksys BEFVP41
I'm confused about how the VPN/Firewall interact with each other in router-router VPN over BEFVP41/BEFSX41 boxes. Even if you enable filtering/forwarding/triggering of lots of ports in the Firewall settings on a Linksys VPN router, does that affect VPN traffic with another Linksys router...- snsh
- Post #12
- Forum: Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
