You are currently browsing the Markus Breitenbach weblog archives for the day February 12, 2008 1:24 am.
- Advertising (1)
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) (8)
- Coding / Programming (6)
- Cryptography (1)
- Data Mining (10)
- ewrt linux (2)
- Fixing Stuff (5)
- Machine Learning (18)
- Math (1)
- Politics (2)
- Psychology (3)
- Ramblings (18)
- Random (6)
- Security (11)
- Society (9)
- Sociology (3)
- spam (2)
- Statistics (9)
- April 21, 2008 1:38 am: ART OF SEDUCTION: Not Pretty, Really
- March 25, 2008 2:25 am: "Internal Server Error" when converting phpBB v2 to phpBB v3
- March 6, 2008 1:29 am: Firewire and DRM
- February 28, 2008 10:46 pm: Using Psychological Domain Knowledge for the Netflix Challenge
- February 12, 2008 1:24 am: VPN Tunels from within VMWare (Windows XP and GRE weirdness)
- February 2, 2008 5:59 pm: License Key Copy Protection
- January 8, 2008 8:34 pm: Registering Domains with Network Solutions
- January 7, 2008 10:22 pm: Joe-job ...
- December 11, 2007 1:37 am: Back from NIPS 2007
- November 24, 2007 1:03 am: GMail Logout Strangeness
Blogroll
Useful Links
Archive for February 12, 2008 1:24 am
VPN Tunels from within VMWare (Windows XP and GRE weirdness)
February 12, 2008 1:24 am by Markus.
I was playing around with the VMWare player and an Windows XP image trying to establish a VPN connection with Microsoft’s VPN Client. It worked just fine, connected and then got stuck at “Verifying Username and Password”. After a while it aborted with a time-out error (was it error 638 or 721?). It turns out that GRE (General Routing Encapsulation) doesn’t deal well with multiple network address translations (e.g. using VMWare Networks with NAT and then my DSL-Router). It worked once I changed it to bridged network. This took me a couple of hours to figure out…
Posted in Fixing Stuff, Ramblings | Print | No Comments »