O2 GPRS Card with NG AI R55 VPN (UK)

[Nigel100]

I was wondering if anyone in the UK uses an O2 GPRS card with NG AI R55 VPN Secureclient to connect to their network successfully.

I have tried the vodafone GPRS/G3 card but simply get a 'gateway not responding' error when trying to connect to the VPN.

 

[Akiwondo]

Hi,

I the SecureClient bound to that interface? If not try installing with the Card in your machine.



Akiwondo (MCSE, CCSE)

 

[Castor66]

I've successfully got an O2 XDA to talk to our corporate network for our CEO. I cna't for the life of me remember how I did it. One thing to ensure is that you can actually browse the internet before you try the VPN stuff. That was my sticking point - the XDA didn't have GPRS enabled.

 

[shaggerTM]

Guys,

On O2 you should be fine, as long as you are using the O2 Mobile Web GPRS service (rather than the Active Content one).

On the Vodaphone 3G/GPRS card, all worked fine for me first time (sorry about being smug) when SecuRemote/SecureClient is on all adapters. Use the Vodafone applet to establish an IP connection first, and then off you go.

You *may* need to use the encapsulation modes (IKE over TCP and UDP Encapsulation) to get things flying.

 

[Castor66]

I've just had to set this up on an O2 XDA-II again as my CEO let the pda reset itself

Anyway, the simple solution was as follows:

1. Connect the pda to computer.
2. Test the GPRS setting to ensure that it can connect to the internet
3. Retrieve the certificate from the Checkpoint box.
4. Download the securemote for Pocket PC from the checkpoint web site:

http://www.checkpoint.com/techsupport/downloads_sr.html

The file required is SC-PPC2K3-131.zip
5. Unzip it and install the securemote app on the XDA
6. Transfer the certificate across to the Personal directory of the PDA.
7. On the PDA, run securemote and add a new site as normal.
8. Make a connection to the internet
9. Update securemote site and enter certificate password
10. Tada!!!

It was actually simpler than I thought it would be.