maitakeboy
Technical User
I'm ready to tear my hair out with the inconsistent
performance of Outlook over a VPN on DSL. The VPN works
fine, but even though I establish a tunnel, often Outlook
returns a "network problems are preventing a connection to
the Exchange server". I have an NT4 network, though
Exchange 5.5 sp4 is running on a W2K server with SP3. I
have a hardware VPN (Netscreen 50) with a full T1 out to
the internet. My remote users are generally on a Verizon
DSL 128/768. I have lmhost files on their machines for name resolution. I had a case this morning with two users in
the same remote office, both had established a VPN tunnel,
one couldn't connect at all to the exchange server, the
other could connect and receive emails, but would just
hang when he tried to send them. Oftentimes they get on, then get knocked off. They can reconnect, but they get knocked off again after 6 or 7 minutes. It's this inconsistency which is driving me crazy. Does anybody have any ideas what this is all about? Is it just a bandwidth issue?
performance of Outlook over a VPN on DSL. The VPN works
fine, but even though I establish a tunnel, often Outlook
returns a "network problems are preventing a connection to
the Exchange server". I have an NT4 network, though
Exchange 5.5 sp4 is running on a W2K server with SP3. I
have a hardware VPN (Netscreen 50) with a full T1 out to
the internet. My remote users are generally on a Verizon
DSL 128/768. I have lmhost files on their machines for name resolution. I had a case this morning with two users in
the same remote office, both had established a VPN tunnel,
one couldn't connect at all to the exchange server, the
other could connect and receive emails, but would just
hang when he tried to send them. Oftentimes they get on, then get knocked off. They can reconnect, but they get knocked off again after 6 or 7 minutes. It's this inconsistency which is driving me crazy. Does anybody have any ideas what this is all about? Is it just a bandwidth issue?
