Very likely MTU/fragmentation issue. If you're using PPPoE you have a
smaller MTU (1480 / 1492 bytes), some badly configured VPN endpoints may
not accept fragmentation that is necessary on packets below 1500.

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 6:06 PM, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:

> Had a customer that works from home.  Could not make his VPN work.
> We thought perhaps it was a port issue.  Opened the ports on the Smart
> RG.  No good.
>
> He spend $150 over the weekend on a geek squad type of service and they
> pointed their finger at us.
>
> So, just because we haven’t tried it, we switched him to DHCP and it
> started working.
> We are in the process of converting everyone to DHCP.
>
> He wants a credit in the amount of the money he paid the geek squad.
>
> Wonder if it was truly our fault.  Still don’t know why it started working
> or what the problem was.
>

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