My VPN connection is now working. It only took me 15 days (and an extra $25 a month) to get it back. A guy from my ISP came out yesterday and did a little magic with my wireless modem, and the VPN client that has never worked here suddenly started working.
Basically, before the reconfiguration, my connection consisted of a wireless router (which does NAT), a wireless modem (which does NAT) and the ISP’s office equipment (which does NAT). The change consisted of them giving me a static IP address, then a change to my wireless modem and router. They changed the wireless modem from NAT to passthrough, then changed my router to static IP support, giving it the IP address, gateway address and DNS addresses. That was all. And I printed all those IP addresses out in case something goes wrong with the router.
The new client appears to work much better than the old Verizon connection I was using before February first. I downloaded the latest build of our product (417 MB) from our build machine in Bothell, WA, and installed it yesterday. It all went fine. The old Verizon client wouldn’t let me do that. It would timeout every 12 minutes, so I could never download huge files.
Silly sign of the day:
Free/Open Source Software
- Emerging Market Developers Rush to Open-Source Software
- Open source: flavour of the month
- Much Growth in Store for Linux Ecosystem
- Free Linux Course for Beginners
- Novell vows to keep fighting Microsoft ‘juggernaut’
RIAA/MPAA/IFPI/BSA/FCC
- Court dismisses Microsoft piracy case
- The Effectiveness of Notice and Notice
- Court smack down for Russian piracy epic
- FTC: Can’t We All Just Get Along?
- New bill to keep XM, Sirius from offering local news and alerts – Gee, I wonder (RIAA) who (RIAA) came up with this (RIAA).
- MPAA chief testifies on movie piracy
Stupid Patent Tricks, DRM and Other IP Nonsense
- Inventor sues Slingbox maker for patent infringement
- Microsoft sued over VPN patents
- DRM loses hearts and minds
- All Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD Encryption Defeated by Single Key
- Music industry agrees DRM is too restrictive
Other News
- Ex-student faces felony charge in Clay case – So, if you own an iPod, you could go to jail for having a ‘criminal tool’.
- Auditors: Billions squandered in Iraq
- SCO: Yes, there is a PJ
- Vista “Express Upgrade” anything but express
Security/Our Rights
- SCO Can’t Find Groklaw Blogger, Blames IBM
- The Last Great Security Crisis
- Hack lets intruders sneak into home routers
- iPod deemed a “criminal tool” in high school security breach
Big Brother