Jason,
When investigating the possibility of a similar installation the
engineer on our Cisco sales team warned us that that satellite
implementations were not recommended because of the extreme latency
inherent in the connection. He states that we should not consider it
as a viable solution and that he didn't know of anyone able to
overcome the problem at that time. If they've come up with a way to
increase the timeout values then you might have a way to make it work,
but 18 months ago there was no workaround.
Sorry this isn't what you wanted to hear. Best of luck.
Jeff
Jeff Powers CCNA, CNE, MCSA
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:39:07 -0400, Jason Brooks <brooksje@longwood.edu> wrote:
Our department has recently been asked to dig into some issues that have
arisen when a user is connecting to our network from home with a VPN session
while on a Direcway satellite link. What is happening is that the user is
regularly disconnected (X interval) from the VPN link. There is nothing
'abnormal' from the Cisco Concentrator end, that we can see.
We've done some googling that have produced inconclusive results, at best.
They range from some institutions saying "We don't support VPN connections
via satellite ISPs", to "They work, but are slow". Nothing indicates that
there are others experiencing the same phenomenon that our user reports.
So, has anyone run into this, or similar circumstances? Did you have to
tweak any client settings? Any Cisco Concentrator settings?
Thanks for any input.
Jason
Jason Brooks
Information Security Technician
Longwood University
201 High Street
Farmville, VA 23909
(434) 395-2034
mailto:brooksje@longwood.edu
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Jeff Powers CCNA, CNE, MCP
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too
confident security.
Edmund Burke
