Subject: |
RE: Trouble setting up Windows / Linux cipe connection |
From: |
"Martin Bene" <martin.bene,AT,icomedias,DOT,com> |
Date: |
Thu, 31 Jan 2002 18:39:29 +0100 |
Hi Damion, thanks for your answer.
> The CIPE local IP address can be left empty.
OK, that should help for part of the problem..
> The CIPE control panel applet has a "disable/enable" check
> box for each peer description. This can be used to stop a
> link from keeping a dialup link active.
I've got two problems with this:
* when disabling a device, all key/encryption settings get removed.
if I have to reenter these (esp. the key) every time I want to access the
company lan, I'm not too happy.
* usability: having to go to control panel/cipe, click the adapter,
click enable/disable isn't really handy. Also, I've got to set a route for
the company network when activating the cipe link. So, I'd much prefer a way
of activating / deactivating the link that can be scripted in a .cmd file.
Would calling "cipsrvr start / cipsrvr stop" to activate/deactivate the link
from a cmd file work?
> Unfortunately, I've still not figured out what causes the
> driver to crash on some Windows installations. I can't even
> reproduce the problem consistently.
The crashes happen very consistently on my system when disabling the cipe
network adapter in windows network settings. if there'S anything I can do to
help fix/diagnose the problem please let me know (MS Visual C development
environment is installed on the PC), it's my private box at home without
anything critical installed.
> The setup that you describe is the original motivation for
> CIPE-Win32. A accounting staff member needed access to the
> company database while on the road with his laptop.
I still fail to get a system up and running where I hand out acompany-lan
local IP address to the remote PC; if I use a different subnet for the
tunneled address things work much better; I still guess that mixing the
point-to-point interface on the unix side with a normal interface on W2K
doesn't work too well.
Bye, Martin