Use Contivity VPN Client With AOL? 2

[MarkGordon]

Hi,

I know this is a novice question, but I'm a novice in this arena. Saying that, I need to be able to connect to my business from home. The only connection I have to the Internet is through AOL dialup. I was given Contivity VPN Client V04_65.09.

It doesn't seem to connect to the Destination. It will start up AOL, then, nothing. If I then try to connect (while Connected to AOL) using the Dial-Up option of "none", it attempts a connect to the destination, then, after a long period of time, says the remote host is not responding.

I am able to connect through my work LAN.

Dialup to an ISP is my only option in my area. My network person suggested that AOL might be the culprit because it may not allow VPN. I used to use VPN successfully when I did work at AOL, so I don't think that's the problem. Any idea's?

Thank you,

Mark

 

[sydlow]

"remote host not respoding" error normally means there is no IP conectivity to the Nortel switch. Try to ping your destination address. The switch should initially respond to pings...then it will stop responding..this is a feature built into the code on the switch. If you get any ping responces from the switch...but you still can not tunnel to the CES....call AOL and see if they are blocking IPSEC.


One more thing....there may be a chance your company has a firewall in front of the CES that will block all ICMP (ping) traffic. You might want to confirm this with your helpdesk before call AOL.

 

[jonks]

I have also not being able to establish an IPSEC tunnel while using AOL, however i solved the problems for one of my users by allowing him to use PPTP which worked with no problems

 

[1911man]

Sorry to here you are using AOL. What OS are you running? The reason I ask, I have seen aol have problems on 95/98/ME when there are to many NOC's in the network settings. I think the max you could have and the contivity client work was 4. I always told AOL users to connect to AOL first and hit a webpage before connecting the contivity client. You may have to call into their tech support but my past experience is the problem is never on their end.
Good Luck

 

[jcaulder]

I am having the same problem. I can ping the destination IP successfully but when I click the 'Connect' button in Contivity, nothing happens. It works through other ISP's, just not AOL. Any other ideas on a way around this. It is critical for our nurses to be able to dial in from the field and unfortunately, AOL is sometimes the only ISP available for them to use.

 

[netmanrick]

AOL uses a VPN.So the Contivity VPN client will not run.

Rick Harris
SC Dept of Public Safety-DMV
Network Operations

 

[sydlow]

What do you mean my "AOL uses a VPN"????

 

[sdelvecchio]

The VPN client will not work with any bullitin board type ISP (i.e. AOL, MSN, Compuserve) since those services are basically a VPN in the way they operate. So running a VPN client through andother VPN client is impossible.

 

[battmain]

AOL creates a VPN Adapter in order to connect to their servers. You might be able to make it work by changing the load order of the aol adapter. Delete the adapter, load your VPN software and then connect to AOL so that it recreates the VPN adapter. I was able to get that to work for one customer, but it doesn't work for me. My VPN connection (and AOL) quits after approximately 150k bytes have passed, but it works fine with another dial up ISP provider.