I will pull full, extended pcaps at our edge router for the customer IP and
at the nearest network router for the customer and send them to them to
relay to their techs. At that point I require them to show where THEIR VPN
is failing, as they control both end points. This is after due diligence on
our network. Its almost always an end user issue, or junk IT staff that
misconfigured something somewhere. It is not the IT staff place to wash
their hands of their responsibility to the staff. I courteously relay that
to the customer. I let the customer know that until the IT does their due
diligence and identifies the VPN component failure, we cannot do anything.
I have them take their device off our network and bring up the VPN to see
if it is, in fact only happening on our network. At that point until the IT
staff does their job and provides detailed VPN server/client logs and
details of the VPN, there is nothing further we can do. Getting the staff
member (who is now non productive) directing their concern in the right
direction, at the IT staff, to their supervisors is pretty successful for
me.

It used to always be ALG in the old dlinks, Microsoft is running scared
right now that they are perceived to be not secure, god only knows what
theyre up to if its a software client VPN, Or its an IT douche who
"secures" the VPN by IP without bothering to ensure the client is on a
static IP, I love that one.

On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 10:48 AM Josh Luthman <[email protected]>
wrote:

> "We can't support someone else's service.  If they can narrow down what
> the issue exactly is we can help but without any information there's
> nothing we can do, it's encrypted to keep us from being able to do
> anything."
>
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> On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 11:43 AM Mark - Myakka Technologies <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Bill,
>>
>> Well that is the issue.  Could be anything.  Been working fine since
>> June.  I have many many more people using VPN's with no issues.
>>
>> But there is an issue on her link.  This is a fiber link BTW.  Her
>> Internet works fine.
>>
>> Her IT guys have washed their hands of it, pushing it all on me.  Not
>> sure how I'm going to figure it out being I don't know what appliance she
>> is using yet.  Even when I get that info, I'll have no access to it.  Doubt
>> they are going to give me admin privileges on their equipment.  Also, I
>> don't get the opportunity to see what errors are showing up on server logs.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Mark                            mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>
>>
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>> www.Myakka.com
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>>
>> Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 11:27:35 AM, you wrote:
>>
>>
>> I would suspect maybe segmentation issues. Sometimes segment boundaries
>> can mess with a VPN.
>>
>> bp
>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>> On 3/17/2021 7:50 AM, Mark - Myakka Technologies wrote:
>>
>> I  have  a  customer  that  has  some type of VPN router device on our
>> system.   Her VPN isn't working anymore.  Her Internet is fine.  I did
>> a  packet  capture  for her IT guys and sent it to them.  Their answer
>> is  the  usual  "It's  your  ISPs fault".  I'm not a VPN expert, but I
>> attached the filtered packet dump.  Looks like things are talking back
>> and forth.  Any issues anyone can see?
>>
>>
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>> Thanks,
>> Mark                          mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>
>>
>> Myakka Technologies, Inc.
>> www.Myakka.com
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