Waulgh. Trying to debug a VPN configuration using my 3 data modem was proving fruitless. It turns out that they are knobbling the GRE packets somewhere along the way which is killing the ability to establish a PPTP connection to the remote service.
Alternative solutions are to use OpenVPN, but let’s be honest about this, it was simply to connect to an already configured Windows vpn environment.
Having talked to the support bloke on the phone he told me that ‘three currently does not support VPN connectivity, but it is in the pipeline’, when asked about the schedule/timescale on that he could not comment – dadblastit!
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I thought those data modems (I know either O2 or Voda have more or less the same device for their service) were geared towards business users on the move. Most business users are connecting to company networks, and company security would generally dictate that this be done over something like a VPN tunnel. Exactly who did they think they were servicing here, providing a “solution” that isn’t really a “solution” for their target audience? Sometimes big companies’ big marketing departments really tick me off. Actually, no, most times, they tick me off.