From: 54235432@truedesign.org   
      
   Yair Sageev wrote:   
      
   > I'm having trouble getting a VPN to work with my router and win2k and am   
   > wondering if somebody here can tell me what I am doing wrong.   
   >   
   > What I did:   
   >   
   > On the router, enabled port forwarding:   
   >   
   > Ipsec, port 500 to 500, TCP and UDP, to my machine's IP (192.168.1.88)   
   > PPTP, port 1723 to 1723, TCP and UDP, to my machine's IP (192.168.1.88)   
   > GRE, port 47 to 47, TCP and UDP, to my machine's IP (192.168.1.88)   
      
   GRE is not port 47; it is IP protocol 47.  Generally these consumer   
   router devices don't give you enough control to forward entire protocols   
   like that.   You may be able to set your machine as the DMZ and get it   
   to work, but i wouldn't be surprised if you just won't be able to accept   
   incoming MS PPTP VPN connections.  The PPTP passthru that the router is   
   referring to is meant to be outgoing (VPN client is behind the router on   
   your LAN side, VPN server is out on the internet somewhere).   
      
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