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VPN solved - but wierd
30-07-2008 10:04 AM
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I can't help feeling that the Plusnet firewall behaviour has changed over the last few weeks for my connection. My work laptop VPN client stopped working about a month and a bit ago.
It all turned out to be the admittedly accurately documented "Low" setting for the PN Firewall.
Fine, except I had not changed this for a very long time - in fact for over a year since the PN Firewall software service was installed in Jan/Feb 2007. I run a web server at home, and had it set to HIGH except for http and https and ran VPN successfully for all of that time since. Somehow, sometime in June/early-July this year the firewall behaviour for VPN appeared to change and HIGH +HTTP/HTTPS suddenly stopped passing VPN.
Low settings state that it blocks port 80, so I now need to determine if I am in the odd situation of needing both http and VPN, and therefore forced to use "Off". mmm
Is this a result of me changing my charging status with PN (from Broadband+ to YourWay)? Was there a fault in the firewall rules that let VPN through on HIGH setting for over a year? Or was this just a change in policy? If I missed an announcement, I'd like to know where these announcements are made please?
It all turned out to be the admittedly accurately documented "Low" setting for the PN Firewall.
Fine, except I had not changed this for a very long time - in fact for over a year since the PN Firewall software service was installed in Jan/Feb 2007. I run a web server at home, and had it set to HIGH except for http and https and ran VPN successfully for all of that time since. Somehow, sometime in June/early-July this year the firewall behaviour for VPN appeared to change and HIGH +HTTP/HTTPS suddenly stopped passing VPN.
Low settings state that it blocks port 80, so I now need to determine if I am in the odd situation of needing both http and VPN, and therefore forced to use "Off". mmm
Is this a result of me changing my charging status with PN (from Broadband+ to YourWay)? Was there a fault in the firewall rules that let VPN through on HIGH setting for over a year? Or was this just a change in policy? If I missed an announcement, I'd like to know where these announcements are made please?
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Re: VPN solved - but wierd
30-07-2008 11:12 AM
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Hiya,
As far as I know there's been absolutely no changes to the running of the broadband firewall since it's implementation.
I'm also not aware of any problems with how it's been working.
As far as I know there's been absolutely no changes to the running of the broadband firewall since it's implementation.
I'm also not aware of any problems with how it's been working.
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