I set up a VPN for a client with a small office between a computer in their office and a roaming laptop, both running XP. In the process I was trying to port-forward a hole through their linksys router firewall, and kept getting 404 errors. So I upgraded the linksys to the latest firmware. (I wish I could say precisely what model it was, but I don't recall. I think it was not a wrt54g although the menus look the same as a wrt54g) The 404 errors went away, but the next day the XP box in the office didn't get a DHCP address. Then the laptop was brought in a few days later and also would not get a DHCP address. Other XP boxes in the office still get DHCP from the linksys just fine. Static addresses work fine, so connectivity isn't an issue - they just won't get a dhcp address from the linksys. This is regular wired ethernet, the workstation/server is a Dell and I think the laptop is an HP. Is there any reason why this might be happening that could be related to OpenVPN? That is the only thing _I_ can think of (aside from happy coincidence) that those two computers have in common that the other XP computers in the office don't.
-- Hans Fugal Fugal Computing
