From: jmsn@ns.sympatico.ca   
      
   Hi all, not sure if this is the place to ask this question, but I haven't   
   had much luck finding an answer to my question, so here goes:   
      
   I am connecting to a Windows-based VPN server on the internet from computers   
   in my corporate LAN (behind a Linux firewall or Cisco PIX).  The problem is,   
   once a specific PC on the LAN has connected to and disconnected from the   
   VPN, no other computers on the LAN are able to connect to the VPN, but the   
   original machine can reconnect without any problems.  Other machines hang at   
   the "Verifying username and password" stage of the login to the VPN.   
      
   Eventually, either after a certain amount of time has passed, or the first   
   pc reboots, or some combination of both, other PC's can connect again, but   
   once any of them connects and disconnects, the same problem occurs, where we   
   have to wait before another PC can get access.   
      
   Has anyone seen this before, and is there a solution?  If I had to guess I'd   
   say that the server is associating something about the PC that makes the   
   first connection with our public IP address, and doesn't allow any other PCs   
   to connect until the server "forgets" about the first machine.   
      
   Thanks in advance for any help.   
      
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