I set up a VPN for a client. They have a small office with DSL (actiontec modem) and a Linksys router. (didn't catch the model, but the menus looked like the wrt54g that my dad has)
In order to get the VPN to work, I had to set up a port forward. But whenever I'd try to apply those changes the linksys would give me a big red 404 screen. So I upgraded the firmware and was able to complete the task. Only to discover that now some XP boxes won't get a DHCP address from the linksys anymore. Other XP boxes are happy to, but these two just won't. Incidentally the two that have had trouble so far are the two that have OpenVPN on them now, I state that for completeness because I don't see how that would make a difference. One of them is a laptop and is able to get an IP address from the neighbor's wide-open wireless, so DHCP itself is not crippled. I did change one other thing, stupidly - I set the router dhcp settings to use a wins server when there isn't one. (I thought it was built-in functionality in an XP box, oops) Now the finnicky thing won't let me unset it, so it's still there. Any ideas? -- Hans Fugal | If more of us valued food and cheer and http://hans.fugal.net/ | song above hoarded gold, it would be a http://gdmxml.fugal.net/ | merrier world. | -- J.R.R. Tolkien --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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