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   I'm trying to connect to a VPN using the Contivity client.  Our home   
   network consists of Windows 2000 machines connected to the Internet   
   via a Windows XP Home Edition SP1 machine using the built-in ICS and   
   ICF (Internet Connection Firewall.)  We are on Direcway, so it is   
   required that our "router" be a Win32 machine so that Direcway's   
   application can run and connect to the satellite service.   
      
   I can connect if I install the client on the Windowx XP router both   
   with and without the ICF enabled.  Unfortunately, this machine is   
   terribly slow, and when connected to the VPN the rest of the LAN is   
   disconnected from the Internet.   
      
   If I install on one of the LAN machines, the client attempts to   
   connect, but gets to a popup box that says, "Attempting to download   
   banner text from server..."  After showing this for about 30 seconds,   
   a message box pops back that says, "The secure connection to server...   
   has been lost..."  This happens with or without ICF enabled.   
      
   One thing I noticed in the ICF log file is that a lot of packets are   
   being dropped where the source is the local LAN IP address, the   
   destination is the VPN server to which I'm connecting, and the   
   Protocol is "50," which I understand to be the ESP protocol.   
      
   Does anyone know how to get around this problem with the environment   
   I'm in?   
      
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