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GS724Tv2 Preventing IPsec tunnel
Hi everyone, I hope I'm posting this in the correct location. The TL;DR is that I have a GS724Tv2 that appears to be preventing IPsec tunnels from fully establishing. I can tell it to connect, I get...
DevilishBooster wrote:Hi everyone,
So today I tried connecting my work issued computer through the switch and the VPN didn't work. I moved it back to the LAN port on the ISP router and it works just fine. I have dug through the menu for the switch and I can't find anything that should be preventing the VPN from connecting. Does anyone here have any idea as to what in the switch's configuration could possibly be killing the tunnel? I'm well beyond angry and frustrated and at this point I just want to understand "why". Lol!
Thanks!
Hi,
It might be MTU problems.
Try setting MTU on your PC to something low like 1000.
See if IPSEC VPN then works.
If it then works, try increasingly larger MTU values until it stops working, then leave it at the highest value that worked.
Kind Regards
James
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