Has anyone vpn to cisco 3000 behind a linksys befvp41

[dbissonn]

Has anyone Connected to a cisco 3000 from behind a linksys befvp41 using win2k. I have a 2k server I dial into, I have adsl modem hooked to a linksys befvp41 and can not connect to the cisco 3000. I do not want to use the cisco client it all has to be windows.

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

 

[mitchoe]

I am assuming some things. One, that when you say "Cisco 3000", you mean a Cisco 30xx VPN concentrator, and two, that your ISP is aware of what you are trying to do and has given you an assurance that it will be permitted. That said, I connect through a Linksys wireless router and ADSL modem from a Win2K laptop using the Cisco client, and have no problems. I know this is not exactly what you are looking for, but the client does seem to work very well with Win2K. I have had problems with other OSes, such as Windows ME, so I only use it on the 2K box. Outside of that, if you want to connect to the concentrator using Win2K only, you will probably have to use certificates, as that is the only way I have seen of using IPSec between Win2K and a Cisco concentrator securely without hard coding a key and with the flexibility of custom groups. This would mean, unfortunately, that your concentrator administrator will have to install a root certificate on the concentrator, which they may or may not be willing to do, and that you may have to pay for the certificate you use from home. Good luck, hope this helps......

 

[dbissonn]

Yes you are correct it is a cisco 30xx vpn concentrator. Since I am the ISP I do allow it. I thought I may have to do the certificate server but was hoping not. I have also found another twist...

I am trying to VPN trough a cisco pix firewall to my linksys 41 and I see it hits the rras server and says verifying user and password then errors out with a no response. I am about to by pass the pix to verify the rras server on my end.

Don't you just love intermixing different internet hardware...

 

[mitchoe]

Yeah, it's a wonderful thing! One of the experiences I had with all this is, when going through a PIX firewall with the VPN client, you have to use the "TCP over port 10000" choice, which means you have to be using one of the more recent clients, I think it's available with 3.5x and above. Of course, then the VPN end-point has to also be able to accept TCP on whatever port you select, and I've only had experience with that on the concentrator, don't know how or if the Linksys handles that.