Compatibilty problem with winpoet and Nortel VPN client in Win2k pro

[amram]

My OS is Win2k Pro with the new SP3 service pack installed. I have earthlink as my dsl provider, I use WinPoet to connect to the net. The probelm is I am unable to install Nortel's VPN client (ver 4.1), Aftert installation when I reboot my computer I get the Blue screen of death, with the message that goes something like this " Bad pool error 0x70000000, 0x...... blah... blah... blah. If you have seen this error for the first time please remove or uninstall the last software which was installed. etc etc". So I uninstalled the client in safe mode. This happened many times, so I got frustrated and took my PC to my company IS guy. He found the problem but not the solutiuon.

When he uninstalled WinPoet the VPN client installed and my PC rebooted without any problems. Also we tried to install the VPN client first and then later Winpoet, when you do that the machine reboots loads up all the drivers and then again reboots, this happens over and over again. So we came to the conclusion that WinPoet and and the Nortel client ar not compatible in Win2k. Now I cannot connect to the internet without Winpoet and I have to use the VPN client because I work from home quite often. Iam in a fix. So did any of you have this problem, seen it before and fixed it? Please help me out if you have any information regarding this issue.

Note: I was using the WinPoet and Nortel's VPN client on Win 98 without any problems whatsover.

 

[Jase0063]

I would get a Cable/DSL router. This way you can uninstall CrapPoet. The routers have something similar to Winpoet built in. You will be very happy with this. Bestbuy has a Linksys router for $50, you can probably shop around and find a similar product for less.

http://www.bestbuy.com/detail.asp?e=11008648&m=488&cat=540&scat=1574

 

[mauricinsoto]

Yo can replace winpoet with RASPPPOE. I hope this solve your problem.

http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~normanb/