My BeOS web site that used to live at http://www.frii.com/~jbm are archived for posterity, and can be reached under the Links section of the home page. I see now Be is an empty, litigating body now, not much left. Guess we wait and see what Palm does with the technology now.
I’ve spent a fair number of hours getting Win2k working with the Linksys BEFVP41, but after all that I’ve found it isn’t a workable solution.
There’s a good Microsoft page on setting up IPSec on Win2k, but the problem comes about a third of the way down in the page where you have to ping the destination LAN, wait to see it fail with Negotiating IP Security messages, and then keep trying until the negotiation completes. This just doesn’t work, and I didn’t realize it until I had this whole thing working and saw how disruptive it was to my work flow and train of thought. If, for whatever reason, my connection goes away and comes back, the two ends don’t automatically come back up and establish the VPN tunnel, so I have to go ping it to bring it back up.
There has also been some flakiness that hasn’t been reported by my co-worker who has been using a second BEFVP41 unit at home to talk to the one at the office, so I’ve moved to that kind of setup (possible, because the Linksys boxes are so cheap) and that configuration will be the subject of another entry.
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