HI there,
Has anyone experienced an issue whereby bluefire or similar contivity VPN client connects seamlessly over WIFI and 3G however will only allow RDP or VNC over WIFI.
I am currently running bluefire and am able to authenticate through 3G but thats it, I have no other functionality.
Any help would be great!
Thx
I've seen it where specific ports are blocked on the 3G providers network, but given that you're establishing a vpn tunnel, that should be irrelevent, as all the traffic should be tunneled via the VPN. I wonder if the Device isn't picking up the new route to send the traffic via the VPN, and is instead sending it via the 3g connection to a non-existant device.
Does your VPN-endpoint give you any logs to show if its actually receiving the traffic from the device? Are you able to ping anything within the remote network (assuming ping is allowed) from the device?
One thing I have noticed is that if you have a 3G connection open, then establish a wifi connection, the routing table doesn't seem to update to use the wifi connection and you actually have to kill the 3G session. I wonder if something like that is happening here - the 3g session establishes a default route, the VPN session then comes up but the device doesn't realise to send traffic via the VPN session. Or are you getting any traffic through the 3G/VPN connection?
I have the option to turn on verbose logging. I ll give that a go and see if it highlights anything really obvious.
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Hello all. I have a siemens sx66 with ROM 1.33.10 running on Tmobile in the NYC area. I have no trouble connecting to GPRS with the unit and accessing the internet. I use the internet3 settings and have been provisioined for VPN through TMO. If I try to connect to my small ofice LAN through GPRS and VPN it seems that I get a connection(desktop shows inbound connection established) but can not view or even ping any of the network resources in either of the two network browsers I have. It seems to me that my trouble is in knowing how to properly configure the connection manager.
As a way to rule out the subscription or network in general, I installed the SIM in a GPRS modem on my laptop and successfully connected and accessed the network resources.
If someone could give me detailed instructions for configuring the connection I would greatly appreciate it. We can start from the point that I have a properly configured GPRS internet connection in the MY ISP section of Connection Manager and nothing more. It will have to be easier than trying to correct anything I had already done with the VPN connection.
Thanks!
I am trying to establish a VPN connection but cannot get the connection to work.
I am using the built in MS VPN client of Win Mobile v5.0 (5.1.1700 build 14352.0.1.0)
I am having real problems getting a VPN connection set up with our network.
I have tried both PPTP and L2PT
When L2TP, I was authenticating with a preshared key
Firewall logs show PPTP negotiation successful, and issues a VPN IP address to the device
It can ping the firewall external interface, but times-out trying to reach an internal address
The VPN session is established, but the firewall logs don't register either deny or allow traffic for each internal ping request, rather the firewall packet error count increments for each failed attempt.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
I had problems with PPTP - gave up
I hate the way Windows mobile labels connections.
I connect to many customers with PC Anywhere, VNC, SSH etc and I have access via serveral different windows PPTP VPN.
Like you I setup the details in connections and try to dial.
Nothing seems to happen. The connect option does not change to disconnect. So I assume it is not connected.
I have a feeling these connection do not work over WIFI. and perhaps work over T-mobile 3g only, to maximise data revenues.
Seems very buggy to me. I would really like someone to post a working example/Instructions. Can I get a refund on my MDA PRo?
MS please note it is not a connection to my work or an internet connection it is to a customer for remote support, likewise I often connect remotely to my home via PPTP from my office.
confirmed VPN works over t-mobile 3g not Wifi
SEems the VPN links only work over 3g not Wi FI.
I'm using a PPTP connection over either 3G of WIFI depending on te active connection.
- When WIFI is active the PPTP connection connects using WIFI (I can switch off the phone, so it must be using that one)
- When no WIFI connection is active it automatically connects to 3G first, and than starts the PPTP session
In network management I'v set:
Internet:
Internet (the one containing the 3G connection)
select 'this network connects to the Internet' on the proxy tab.
private network:
My Work (the one that contains the vpn connection)
do NOT select 'this network connects to the Internet' on the proxy tab.
So as you can see, nothing special (I'm using a Qtek 9000 with standard Wm5 ROM)
I have a 6800 with Verizon and I attend Penn State at the main campus. We have group authenticated VPN security for our on campus wireless. I downloaded BlueFire mobile VPN because it has group authentication capabilities. I connect to the Penn State wireless and then connect with the VPN client, however I notice that my phone calls the 777 number to access the VPN server for some reason, even though I have wireless. I messed around with connection settings, but got no results. My issue with this is that I don't have any data plan because I don't want to pay for it and the data call eats up my minutes.
Does anyone know how to properly set up the connection settings so that I don't pour money into Verizon's pockets?
Also, I don't think this is possible but I might as well ask... is there any way to use the VPN software included with WM to connect to group authenticated VPN servers?
Any clues?
Have you tried turning off data connection?
hi all,
I want to use PPTP vpn connection to my work
The PPTP vpn connection is established successfully.
However if I switch to an application which would generate internet traffic (such as internet explorer) my PPTP connection drops.
What is the problem ?
thanks
That's normal. Happens to me everytime. When you access your providers' ISP through updating weather, stocks or starting IE, it will boot your VPN connection. For me, it is do to my service provider.
so there is nothing to do to resolve this issue ? i would like to use VPN access to my work to check email with Internet Explorer ..
You need to add work network exceptions to force required types of traffic to go through the VPN tunnel. Plenty of relevant discussions around, just google it. Here's a link to one particular overview:
http://www.glenscott.net/2008/11/04/windows-mobile-56-networking-profiles-proxy-and-vpn-setup/
Hello!
I was on a vacation abroad recently and tried out something novel for me: To use VPN while on a public wifi. Another neatness was that the PPTP VPN server was running on my ASUS RT-AC66U router back home, an endpoint I'm pretty comfortable with
However, there was one thing that griped me: Whenever I established a connection to a wireless network, Viber or Facebook Messenger or something would pop up a message before I could establish the VPN connection. Now, since I don't know how these services work, I don't know if there was a brief period in there that my device communicated messages and credentials in the open. Hopefully there remains some sort of encryption certificates from a previously negotiated session, but I'd like to be confident that it's not possible to send unencrypted credentials or messages.
Ideally, the phone should remain passive until all traffic is routed through the secure tunnel. Is there any way to do this? Android introduced "Always-On VPN" that sounds like it claims to be what I'm looking for. However, it only works for L2TP as far as I understand.
The usage case scenario here allows for no data by default/block all ports/route everything locally. Then if wifi connection is established, open port for VPN connection, establish VPN, then open all ports. Presently I've switched to OpenVPN also, and installed the "OpenVPN for Android" application. I have no problems establishing a VPN connection, it's just tightening any holes I'm interested in.