From: phoenix@fakeaddress.net
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 18:13:13 +0000 (UTC), Andrew wrote:
> phoenix wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 01:19:12 GMT, 420 wrote:
>
>>> this is for all you poor slobs out there that can't make your vpn equipment
>>> work. the router says you're connected, you can ping successfully, but you
>>> just can't browse any of the network resources.
>>>
>>> solution (at least in my case): long ago i used to have zone alarm
installed
>>> on my pc. i had since uninstalled it, but it was still lurking around
enough
>>> to cause problems with my ability to connect to another pc, via vpn. i took
>>> the drastic approach and reformatted. now i can connect so as long as the
pc
>>> on the other end has NEVER had zone alarm installed on it. you may be able
>>> to manually peel zone alarm off using reg edit, but i did not try this.
>>> perhaps some other egg head out there would care to. right now, i'm too
busy
>>> doing back flips!
>
>> Absolute nonsense, Zonealarm (free & Pro) works fine with VPNs and always
>> has done with all the versions I've used including the current one.
>
> Newer versions of zonealarm might be better, but installing zonealarm
> on my win2k machine completely broke the checkpoint vpn client that I
> had been using. I was unable to get the checkpoint vpn client to work
> without reinstalling the OS. Simply uninstalling zonealarm didn't help.
>
> I now prefer to put my computer behind a NAT router to protect it instead
> of installing instrusive programs like zone alarm.
>
> Andrew
That's fine but it's not my experience, I never said it worked for everyone
but it has for me. BTW, I also have my systems behind a NAT router as well
as having a firewall installed but I still don't have any problems.
What the o/p was describing isn't a problem with ZA it's a problem with not
having his VPN setup correctly.
Regards
Bill
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