From: matt_at_manuauto.com@removeunderscores   
      
   Well I tried making a new policy on our firewall...   
   I first added a rule to allow pptp and forward it to my desktop machine.   
   ( i can connect to my desktop from other computer on our lan...)  That   
   didn't work, so I thought I'd experiment and setup ping to forward to my   
   machine...  And I can't ping my ip from the outside...  I then set it to   
   allow any source, and to forward all packets to my machine, and nothing   
   at all works...  I made sure the cheesy windows firewall isn't running   
   either...  What gives...  Is this normal?   
      
   matt   
      
   Matt Misener wrote:   
      
   > Hi,   
   >   
   > I'm trying to setup a vpn, with a windows 2000 client connecting to   
   > windows 2000 server behind a netscreen 5xp firewall.   
   >   
   > However, I'm recieving error 789: "The L2TP connection attempt failed   
   > because the security layer encourntered a processing error during   
   > initial negotiations with the remote computer."   
   >   
   > I searched this group (via google) and found several instances of this   
   > error but no one ever posted a reply...  If you need more details,   
   > please let me know.  I've never tried to setup a vpn before but am   
   > fairly knowledgable about most things.  If you can help that would be   
   > awesome!!   
   >   
   > Thanks,   
   >   
   > Matt Misener   
      
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