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VPN Troubleshooting QA - Part I

Posted Friday, July 18, 2008 1:06 PM by rrasblog
Hello friends, We get questions,queries,feedback and clarifications from many people about their VPN connections through e-mail. I felt some of these Q&A might help people who face similar issues. So here it goes, the list posted as a Q&A. Query Read More...
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Configuring IIS on the SSTP server - Implications and how to resolve

Posted Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:51 PM by rrasblog
This blog is going to tell about how SSTP can be affected by configuring IIS Server on the same Server and how to get rid of this problem without moving the IIS Server to a different machine. Let's us first know what kind of issue can arise if IIS is Read More...
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Do you want to change the certificate used by the SSTP server - Read how

Posted Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:38 PM by rrasblog
This blog is going to tell about how to change the Certificate to be used for the SSTP Server. Although, the normal procedure of installing the certificate on RRAS Server for SSTP mentioned in the step by step guide works perfectly fine, this blog is Read More...
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Betterment of diagnostics for VPN connection issues in LH

Posted Wednesday, June 13, 2007 1:29 PM by rrasblog
To have a better diagnostics around VPN connection issues in LH, RRAS has introduced a functionality of tagging the VPN connection related events with what is called as "Correlation-ID" (CoID). The relevant event messages are prefixed with "CoID={128 Read More...
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Troubleshooting Vista VPN problems

Posted Sunday, April 08, 2007 11:59 PM by rrasblog
Hello all. There have been quite a few questions/posts on the technet forums about issues you folks have seen with Windows Vista VPN clients. So we thought we would come up with a post on the common configuration issues and some troubleshooting tips. Read More...
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Setting up the SSTP listener and verifying it

Posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 12:03 AM by rrasblog
We have seen the steps to configure a SSTP server in one of the previous posts. However, we will concentrate on on aspect of the configuration in this post in detail and the most important one too, because without this your server is not yet ready to Read More...
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Enabling RAS Tracing in Vista/Longhorn Server

Posted Tuesday, June 20, 2006 10:49 AM by rrasblog
Check http://blogs.technet.com/rrasblog/archive/2005/12/22/416421.aspx for information to enable RAS logs on the earlier Windows Versions. RAS Trace logs help in troubleshooting RAS connections related issues. On the earlier versions of Windows, "netsh Read More...
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Which ports to unblock for VPN traffic to pass-through?

Posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 3:59 PM by rrasblog
Little Background: Microsoft RRAS server and VPN client supports L2TP/IPSec and PPTP based VPN connection. L2TP tunnel traffic is carried over IPSec transport mode and IPSec protocol internally has a control path through IKE and data path over ESP. Whereas Read More...
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Cannot reach beyond the RRAS server from VPN clients?

Posted Thursday, February 09, 2006 3:26 PM by rrasblog
Many a time we face this issue - after making a VPN connection to the Routing and Remote Access server, we are unable to reach the machine on the network behind the VPN server. Here are a few tips to troubleshoot this. Let's consider this example to understand Read More...
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Enabling logs for RRAS

Posted Thursday, December 22, 2005 3:07 PM by rrasblog
Failures for RAS connections can be debugged using RAS logs. To enable RAS logs run command “netsh ras set tracing * enabled” Now run the scenario that is failing. Now flush the RAS logs by “netsh ras set tracing * disabled” command. Check the logs at Read More...
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Troubleshooting VPN connections : Dr. RRAS

Posted Monday, November 28, 2005 10:17 PM by rrasblog
These are some of the common errors we come across when we make a VPN connection to a Routing and Remote Access VPN server: Connection-time errors Error 800: VPN server is unreachable This occurs often if the PPTP/L2TP packets cannot reach the VPN server. Read More...
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