I have a 4 port Linksys and use VPN to connect to our office. The process if to connect using VPN. This will get you to the LAN. Then to log off and re-connect again. This will allow the script to run that connects to your network drives. On NT Machines there is no problem. On the XP machine it connects to the company LAN but when you sign off and relog back in it takes about 20 minutes and never connects to the drives or run the script. The XP machine works fine with a single port router.
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Using 4 Port Linksys router and VPN
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Could this be the scenario?
Your PC logon has a script to set up mapped drives etc. that assumes a network connection exists. First time you log on there isn't a connection, so the script fails. Then you set up a connection, log off (implicitly assuming that the connection will persist) and log back on so the script can run.
With a 4 port router XP's logout resets the router so the second time you log on you get a different (IP) port or address from the router. Now the previous session's VPN connection is broken - but Windows doesn't realise this and tries for 20 mins to get through before failing. With a single port router you always get the same port/address so the connection is always still there.
I would simply run the network setup script manually after connecting the VPN - it is usually just a DOS batch file. Put a shortcut on the desktop next to the VPN connection shortcut. I run a site with lots of incoming VPNs from all sorts of systems and they all work reliably this way.
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Your PC logon has a script to set up mapped drives etc. that assumes a network connection exists. First time you log on there isn't a connection, so the script fails. Then you set up a connection, log off (implicitly assuming that the connection will persist) and log back on so the script can run.
With a 4 port router XP's logout resets the router so the second time you log on you get a different (IP) port or address from the router. Now the previous session's VPN connection is broken - but Windows doesn't realise this and tries for 20 mins to get through before failing. With a single port router you always get the same port/address so the connection is always still there.
I would simply run the network setup script manually after connecting the VPN - it is usually just a DOS batch file. Put a shortcut on the desktop next to the VPN connection shortcut. I run a site with lots of incoming VPNs from all sorts of systems and they all work reliably this way.
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