VPN between Contivity and 3COM

[jsandco]

Hi,

I have a Contivity 1010 as VPN server and I'm trying to create a site to site VPN with a 3COM on the other end.

Problems:

- The VPN comes up only when initialized from the Contivity.

- The VPN stops to work after a few minutes and I need to reset the connection to reestablish

Any idea ?

Many thanks for your help.

Seb

 

[Josephius]

We have had similar problems and hope someone can reply to this question. We have two clients with similar situations when setting up a VPN. Both clients have Dells/win2000 for workstations at the remote sites. Both clients' remote sites either lock up or drop the dsl connection. Neither will work directly with Netopia routers/dsl modems WITHOUT a switch between them. Although the routers have hubs, they just won't work. Older machines have no problems. We're thinking the newer machines are constantly polling and trying to negotiate a higher connected rate.

All we know is that when we put in a switch, they work. We don't know why. Anybody have an opinion?

Thanks