Re: Random disconnects when using Windows 7 PPTP VPN client

James Cameron <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.poptop
Organization Netrek Vanilla Server Dictator
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 05:03:11PM +0000, James Young wrote:
> Once I broke out Wireshark and started watching the traffic in detail,
> I soon found spurious ICMP Protocol Unreachable messages being sent by
> the Windows clients:
> 
> 359062 1237.481525 172.x.x.x 82.y.y.y ICMP Destination unreachable
> (Protocol unreachable)

Have you evidence to exclude NAT routers as the source of these packets?
In other words, packet capture from network interface of client.

Reason I ask is that the PPTP mailing lists have heard of many problems
traced to the NAT implementations.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/

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