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TechShort: PowerShell to Setup VPN Connections

Here is a way we can be consistent with our setup of VPN connections on computers. Using PowerShell this is made simple with a small script on a USB stick, network share or whatever method you choose to get the to the client machine The following is a one line PowerShell command: Add-VpnConnection -Name “VPN Connection Name” […]

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Setup Port Forwarding for L2TP and PPTP

So I setup a VPN Server for a friend. But what’s a VPN  Server if you are unable to access it form the outside world.  This is where opening ports on ones router / firewall is required. Rather than focus on a specific firewall vendor or appliance, I will just focus on the ports and […]

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PPTP VPN Connection issues on ESXi 5.5

Issue:  I am unable to connect to a VPN server hosted as a guest on VMware ESXi 5.5. After much troubleshooting it seems that the issue with my PPTP connections is that GRE isn’t making it to my server. In my logs I found the following: vyatta pptpd[2777]: CTRL: PTY read or GRE write failed […]

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Windows 8 VPN Error 812

I recently bumped into a little issue when connecting to my companies corp network using the VPN Client built into Windows 8. I haven’t run into this issue on XP, Vista, or Windows 7 so I wondered if something was new that may have prevented this. And I guessed it right. After getting the following error: Now […]

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Personal

Is AT&T blocking SIP

Last night I installed a SIP client (CSipSimple) on my phone, and it worked perfectly on my wireless network.  So I said to myself, what about 3G.  I gave it a few test and while I get the inbound and can make outbound calls.  There is lack of voice data being sent.  This was a […]