On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 03:40:18PM -0600, Carl Zeilon wrote:
> First, I'm totally new to VPNs.  My wife is set up with a VPN to connect 
> to work from home.  If I use a wired connection to my router, everything 
> functions fine.  If I use the wireless card, failure.  After a bit of 
> Googling I tried connecting through a neighbor's unsecured wireless 
> network.  Tada... the VPN works.  So, my question is this - Can you only 
> use a VPN when you are connected to an unsecured wireless network?  I 
> can't use WPA & VPN at the same time?  Is there something else I'm missing?

Most likely your router is mangling some packets (or does not mangle
the NAT packets as it might need to). I remember something about VPN in
the configuration pages of my Linksys WRT54G. Google around and dig
into the configs.

florin

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