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” […]
Tag: 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]