Vince wrote:
> OK, during a period where the Phase 2's just thrashing each other from
> both ends (central office and problem remote office), I tried ping
> testing to a public address (easynews.com), the local DNS Server, and
> the remote router's WAN IP address, all with no packet loss from either
> side after about 2-3 minutes of continuous pings at min and max packet
> sizes.
>
> I've gotten to the point where I have pushed the Phase 1 timeout to
> 24hrs and the Phase 2 timeout to 12hrs, just to keep my clients from
> major downtime.  That only worked for a day and a half.  Yet again, the
> remote office had to hard-boot the router and wait 5 minutes before the
> tunnel was restored.
>
> I have come across 2 spare Linksys BEFVP41's which I am about to try,
> just for comparison.  If they appear to work better, I will most likely
> junk the Netopias.  If the problems remain the same, I may just nuke
> the site for morbid. This has been unbelievably frustrating.
>

Well good luck.  I have had my share of phase 2 problems, but they
always seemed to be something with the settings or the network link.

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