07-16-2009 02:42 PM
I have a WRVS4400N, which for the most part performs fine except for this. I have a PPTP VPN connection setup on my home computer and laptop to our office. Its the simple MS VPN to an ISA server back in the office.
When i try to connect via the VPN from behind the router, it never connects, simply times out. I have tried disabling the firewall, Block WAN requests, everything that i can find to disable, and still no joy.
If i remove the WRVS4400N router and connect directly to the internet, i connect just fine, so its definately the Cisco WRVS4400N causing the issues. Everything i read tells me it is some how blocking GRE, yet i am not sure how even with the firewall disabled.
Cisco, can you help?
maccore2
07-17-2009 07:51 AM
Aaron, try going into the port forwarding tab and forward port 1723 and port 47. Port 1723 is the pptp port using tcp and port 47 is the gre port. Give that a shot and see what you got. By the way what firmware version do you have? And what version is your wrvs4400n. Thank You.
07-17-2009 09:33 PM
Thanks for the quick reply. First, i have firmware version V1.1.03, and router version is 1.1.
I have tried single port forwarding both 1723 and 47, and i have also tried port triggering, and both give the same result.
Any suggestions on what i should try next?
Thanks again for the reply.
Aaron
07-19-2009 08:30 AM
Can you provide a packet capture of the PPTP session seen by the PPTP client when it's behind WRVS4400N?
Alternatively you could try to contact the tech support to see if they can duplicate the issue. This will speed up the issue resolution if there is indeed a defect in the firmware.
07-20-2009 08:33 AM
Aaron, how about upgrading to the latest version of firmware as a first step and see if that works. Version 1.1.13 from the cisco.com website. Try that and keep us posted.
07-20-2009 06:19 PM
I was able to upgrade the router to firmware version 1.1.13 as you suggested, but with no luck. Still the same results. I am going to post a network capture as the previous post suggests.
07-20-2009 06:20 PM
07-21-2010 05:05 PM
Sorry for bumping a year old thread, but I am having the same issue with this router with a very similar setup, and I couldn't find a solution anywhere. Does anyone know what would be causing this?
Just to note, I have PPTP passthrough enabled and am forwarding both TCP and UDP 1723 to the IP of the VPN server. If i set the IP as the DMZ host, I can connect just fine. I don't want to run that machine as the DMZ host permanantly, however.
04-10-2011 04:18 PM
Hi,
I have the exact same problem. I just upgraded from a WRT300N router which works fine with PPTP to a WRVS4400N router. I enable TCP port 1723 on the WRVS4400N and set all 3 tunnels to passthrough. I noticed that PPTP works fine until I send a PPP LCP Configuration Request to the Windows 2003 server sitting behind the router. Apparently the 2003 server does not receive the request; at least my PPTP does not receive a response. It almost looks like IP Port 47 (GRE) is not open and the packets are not being forwarded to the server.
Any idea how to fix the problem ?
I haven't yet tried setting my Windows 2003 server in the DMZ. I susptect that might fix the problem, but that's very insecure.
Any pointers are appreciated.
Thanks
Dalia Geller
04-17-2012 07:36 AM
After 1 years anyone have a solution?
i have same probleme with my WRVS4400N and my SBS2011.
Port forwarding 1723 TCP/UDP
Activate PPTP PassThrough:
Local VPN work fines but not extern. On wireshark, the connection block on LCFconfiguration Request ( it's on GRE47)
Help me
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