Linksys and Checkpoint VPN

[spivvy]

have got a linksys wireless router at home now and am trying to get checkpoint VPN software working over it as since i have put it in i can't connect to office,
have done usual stuff enabled ipsec and using udp request but still no joy ,

the unit will retrieve the encryption key when you first install the software but won't connect i can only assume it can't do 2 way authentication , anyone got the same setup that works

[zumbruk]

spivvy said:

have got a linksys wireless router at home now and am trying to get checkpoint VPN software working over it as since i have put it in i can't connect to office, have done usual stuff enabled ipsec and using udp request but still no joy ,

What did you have before, when it worked?

spivvy said:

the unit will retrieve the encryption key when you first install the software but won't connect i can only assume it can't do 2 way authentication , anyone got the same setup that works

IPsec doesn't play nicely with NAT. Have you got TCP header encryption turned on? It should be off...

[spivvy]

zumbruk said:

spivvy said: have got a linksys wireless router at home now and am trying to get checkpoint VPN software working over it as since i have put it in i can't connect to office, have done usual stuff enabled ipsec and using udp request but still no joy , What did you have before, when it worked? spivvy said: the unit will retrieve the encryption key when you first install the software but won't connect i can only assume it can't do 2 way authentication , anyone got the same setup that works IPsec doesn't play nicely with NAT. Have you got TCP header encryption turned on? It should be off...

i had a wired network and was using a pc as a gateway

don't think this linksys has TCP header Encryption will check though

[Don]

The Linkssys software is notoriously buggy too. Individual Port Forwarding simply does not work on some releases. Port Range forwarding does though so you can always use that...

We couldn't get a VPN to work over it at all. Remote Access *did* work for some reason so we actually just use that.

[spivvy]

Don said:

The Linkssys software is notoriously buggy too. Individual Port Forwarding simply does not work on some releases. Port Range forwarding does though so you can always use that... We couldn't get a VPN to work over it at all. Remote Access *did* work for some reason so we actually just use that.

any idea on range settings have tried 1 to 65535 with no joy on TCP

[icamm]

I.ve got a Linksys WAG54G and just enabled IPSec Pass-Through and my cisco VPN software worked first time.

Linksys kit does seem to be pretty buggy though so you could try upgrading the firmware. Have a look at ftp://ftp.linksys.com/international/firmware/ to see if there is a newer version available for your router.

[spivvy]

The unit i have is a linksys befw11s4_v4 so is fairly old i think ,i might try to reload the firware and see if that helps

[spivvy]

changed deafault ip address to 192.168.250.1 and it works