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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => Routers / COVR => DIR-130 => Topic started by: Harrkev on February 08, 2010, 10:20:31 AM
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I just got a DIR-130, and have had fun setting it up. However, I am having a VPN problem.
I set up a PPTP VPN as described in the FAQ. I set up Windows XP Home to use this VPN connection, and it connects just fine! I can access my networked printer from across town very easily. I can access my printer's web page just fine. I can also access the router's own configuration web page just fine too.
However, when I try to access the general internet through the VPN connection, I have serious problems, It appears that I can access www.msn.com just fine, and I can get to MANY links from www.msn.com. However, if I try to go to any other pages craigslist, woot, google, bing, etc., then it appears to hang. I have confirmed this exact same behavior using the Chrome browser. Firefox, however, refuses to start until I disconnect from the VPN. ???
Any advice?
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Actually, I cannot access my router configuration page remotely. I can, however, access my printer's configuration page, and my wireless access point configuration page. I also tried completely disabling my firewall on Win XP Home, and still the same results.
I found that Thunderbird can SEND mail (SMTP), but cannot receive mail (POP).
I need this to work, because I want to be able to keep my passwords secret from snooping while using public unencrypted access points (book stores, coffee shops, etc.).
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PS: Another problem that I found: When viewing the DHCP clients table, setting a single DHCP reservation seems to wipe out the entire table. Not a deal-killer, but kind of annoying.
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Check the interface MTU on the PPTP interface.
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Thanks. That did the trick! You are da man!
Unfortunately, XP does not seem to provide a GUI to change this setting, so I had to do this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283165
And, despite the instructions, setting the MTU to 1350 was needed to do the trick (1400 will not work).
A link to these instructions (or perhaps just a downloadable registry file) should be placed in the FAQ.
So, why exactly do I need to do this? Shouldn't a packet that is too long be fragmented?
Thanks again! You rock!
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Hmmm. I just tried to search for MTU in the DIR-130 and DIR-330 forums, and very little came up. Am I the first person to run into this problem? I cannot believe that others have not seen this also.
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Your the first one I have worked with pertaining to this product, or even the first one concerning PPTP VPNs I can think of immediately.
(Un)Fortunately your symptoms were classic symptoms seen fairly commonly on consumer class equipment using WAN connections with an MTU lower than 1500.
I would also check your WAN Type on you DIR-130 against your DIR-130's WAN MTU.
Fragmentation is very expensive computationally and under any kind of load can lead to connections being dropped, and a number of applications may set the DF (D'ont Fragment) bit which would just cause the frame to be dropped outright.
I don't htink this is a fairly common issue, not only because I had not seen it previously, but I fear your environment may have happened to be a perfect storm.
This is not expected to be accurate but I am picturing the following.
A cable connection with a WAN MTU of 1500 for your hotspot network
A DSL connection (MTU 1492) with your DIR-130
Meaning that you could fragment the incoming PPTP connection and then again when that tunnelled traffic leaves the DIR-130. This would lead to the DIR-130 being a huge bottleneck whenever any remote clients are PPTP'ed in.
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I've got a DIR-615 with 5.10...
And I got a new internet connection with PPTP protocol.
I had this problem that it wasn't connecting but then I changed the PPTP server address to an ip instead of red.connect.net.pk. It connected. Now the problem I'm facing is that it connects but there is no internet access :S Please help me out!!!
I've tried almost everything. I'd be glad if the problem is resolved or I would have to buy a new router ???
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Any status on this? ???
I've got a DIR-615 with 5.10...
And I got a new internet connection with PPTP protocol.
I had this problem that it wasn't connecting but then I changed the PPTP server address to an ip instead of red.connect.net.pk. It connected. Now the problem I'm facing is that it connects but there is no internet access :S Please help me out!!!
I've tried almost everything. I'd be glad if the problem is resolved or I would have to buy a new router ???