Re: VPN Problems (SonicWall)

From: Todd McLaughlin (toddm@waltz.rahul.net)
Date: 05/29/02 

From: Todd McLaughlin <toddm@waltz.rahul.net>
Date: 29 May 2002 15:50:30 GMT

So how can I find out which ports are being blocked, and where?

I'm using Earthlink as the ISP. When I use ISDN, Outlook can't connect.
When I use the regular modem, it works fine. I doubt Earthlink is
blocking ports on just ISDN which is a business class line which, if
anything, should have less blocking.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Derek Nash <dnash@tiny.net> wrote:
: They are probably blocking UDP port 500 or the AH or ESP protocols. There
: really isn't a way around it other then using a better ISP. :)

: "Todd McLaughlin" <toddm@waltz.rahul.net> wrote in message
: news:acupd8$od1$1@samba.rahul.net...
:> I have a Sonic Wall Pro 200 at home. Never had problems with the VPN
:> connection in California, but I'm visiting Idaho and the VPN isn't
:> working.
:>
:> When I try to ping my machine back home (ping 192.168.168.10) the VPN
:> makes the connection and the key shows up on the "S" icon. But the ping
:> attempts time out. If I go to Connection Monitor, all the IP's and
:> everything look good there. Under Security Associations Details, I don't
:> really know what I'm looking at since I haven't studied the page when I
:> have a good connection. Under the Phase 2 tab, I see that the outbound
:> bytes increase during the ping attempts, but the Inbound bytes remains
:> at 0.
:>
:> I'm assuming the outbound bytes are correct and they're getting sent to
:> whatever ISP I'm connected to (1Cust44.tnt1.hailey.id.da.uu.net). I
:> don't know if they're reaching my machine back home, though. Is it
:> possible the ISP is blocking a port I'm using? But I'd think if that was
:> the case, the VPN wouldn't have connected at all.
:>
:> I know during a good connection, the status bar on the S icon is usually
:> red/green at the same time. Now, for each ping attempt, it flashes green
:> then red.
:>
:> I'm lost. Please help!
:>

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