Re: Microsoft VPN keeps getting dropped almost every 10 mins.! Why?

Jean-Francois Dive <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.vpn
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Maybe you would want to describe which VPN technology is in use ?

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 09:30:35AM -0800, Exo Wa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have setup two VPN servers in my work environment. 
> The two servers sit behind a hardware firewall and 
> both machines are mapped to external IPs via NetScreen
> 25.
> 
> Each machine has two NICs and they both have Windows
> 2000 Server
> installed (with all Microsoft's latest patches
> applied). Internet
> Authentication Service is installed and both machines
> belongs to
> a domain controller which provide authentication
> services for these 
> VPN servers.
> 
> Since both machines have identical setup (except IP), 
> I will give you config of VPN Server1:
> 
> Two NICs:(with bogus IPs)
> 
> NIC#1Public:   192.168.1.90 mapped to 202.15.15.90
> SubNet MasK   255.255.255.0   
> Default Gtw   192.168.1.1
> Preferred DNS 192.168.1.80
> 
> NIC#2Private: 192.168.1.92 
> SubNet MasK   255.255.255.0   
> Default Gtw(blank-per MS manual i found on the
> Internet)
> Preferred DNS 192.168.1.80
> 
> Users are prompted for password and authenticated 
> with no problem but only stay connected for 
> about 10 to 15 minutes then gets dropped 
> eventhough they can reconnect with no problem. 
> This problem persist for every user trying to VPN in.
> 
> Can someone tell me if my configuration is correct?
> What can I do to rectify this?
> 
> Any help on this would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks In Advance,
> 
> -Exo
> 
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