Can't Connect To Netgear DGFV338 W/ MS VPN Client - Please help!
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Posted by Rafael on January 9, 2009, 8:09 am
Please log in for more thread options I have a new laptop running MS Vista Ultimate. I want to use a remote access VPN to connect to a Netgear VPN router (model DGFV338) using the Microsoft VPN Client. The error I get on the laptop when the connection fails is: 'Error 789: The L2TP connection attempt failed because the security layer encountered a processing error during initial negotiation with the remote computer'. The VPN log on the router just repeats this error: "Could not find configuration for (my routers external IP address) [500]" I also have another laptop running Windows XP with Netgear ProSafe VPN Client and connecting to the same Netgear router works perfectly. I'm using a pre-shared key. Any help would be greatly appreciated! | ||||||||||
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Posted by Doug McIntyre on January 9, 2009, 10:48 am
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>Please help! I'm desperate!
Maybe you couldn't get a cohesive answer out of NetGear support? >I have a new laptop running MS Vista Ultimate. I want to use a remote
>access VPN to connect to a Netgear VPN router (model DGFV338) using >the Microsoft VPN Client. >'Error 789: The L2TP connection attempt failed because the security
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Downloading the documentation for this "firewall", I find no mention in the docs that it can function at a L2TP server for the Microsoft client to connect to it. Just that it can pass-through L2TP if so enabled to something else. So, looks like you're trying to use two totally different protocols on either end that are incompatible. >The VPN log on the router just repeats this error:
>"Could not find configuration for (my routers external IP address)
>[500]" >I also have another laptop running Windows XP with Netgear ProSafe VPN
>Client and connecting to the same Netgear router works perfectly. I'm >using a pre-shared key. And here you are using the same two protocols on either end to make a working VPN tunnel. Your assumption that Microsoft VPN client does the same thing is faulty, it doesn't. The Netgear device also doesn't seem to support the protocols that the Microsoft VPN client will use either. Ask NetGear for their VPN client that works on your Vista Ultimate laptop? | ||||||||||
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Posted by Rafael on January 9, 2009, 12:25 pm
Please log in for more thread options Thank you for your response.
I have been in touch with Netgear support but there responses are somewhat slow. They say that the router will work with the Microsoft VPN Client so it must be my config. The Netgear ProSafe VPN Client will not work with 64 bit Vista Ultimate. | ||||||||||
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Posted by Doug McIntyre on January 9, 2009, 2:11 pm
Please log in for more thread options >Thank you for your response.
>I have been in touch with Netgear support but there responses are
>somewhat slow. >They say that the router will work with the Microsoft VPN Client so it
>must be my config. Their online docs don't describe how to set it up, thats all I can base it on, but if they support it, its a new & different config than your existing one. "VPN" means a great many things. Its not just one thing and VPN definitively describes it. >The Netgear ProSafe VPN Client will not work with 64 bit Vista
>Ultimate. Ah, seems to be a problem for alot of people. | ||||||||||
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Posted by Mike Drechsler - SPAM PROTECTE on January 9, 2009, 3:12 pm
Please log in for more thread options Rafael wrote:
> Thank you for your response.
>=20 > I have been in touch with Netgear support but there responses are > somewhat slow. >=20 > They say that the router will work with the Microsoft VPN Client so it > must be my config. >=20 > The Netgear ProSafe VPN Client will not work with 64 bit Vista > Ultimate. The netgear router does not work with the Microsoft VPN client. The=20 router only supports IPSec, not L2TP. There is IPSec support in Windows but it only works when you have a=20 static IP on both sides of the connection which is not likely for a=20 laptop user. You need an IPSec client from a third party. You may still have trouble = figuring out the settings if you are not experienced with setting up=20 IPSec VPN connections. eg: http://www.thegreenbow.com/vpn_faq.html#VPN1 Configuration guide for a similar model of Negear firewall: http://www.thegreenbow.com/doc/tgbvpn_cg_DG834G.pdf Price is 58=80 Netgear support doesn't seem to know their own product in your case. | ||||||||||
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