VPN problem...
Lloyd Kvam
python at venix.com
Thu Oct 1 17:43:05 EDT 2009
On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 16:59 -0400, Alex Hewitt wrote:
> For the fun of it I set the router to obtain it's WAN address
> dynamically and immediately the VPN tunnel connected. I checked the
> logs
> but didn't see anything obviously wrong. I did notice that when the
> router is setup to use a dynamic address, it has the correct date and
> time. When it's set up with a static address the status page says
> "time
> unavailable". I think this might be part of the problem. If the
> router
> doesn't know the time (perhaps the clock can't be used?) then the VPN
> connection might not work. I'm also puzzled as to what server it's
> requesting date/time data from. It has the ability to manually set
> the
> time zone but doesn't give any choices as to which ntp server to use.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas? So far Linksys support hasn't been very
> useful.
Name servers??? The DHCP server provides good name servers. You have a
static name server setup that limps along at the client (blocked from
recursive queries??).
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