What's wrong with GSA?

I failed secure connection by google secure access!

plz, see the snapshot:
http://upload.mop.com/user/2005/10/03/f1f43920.GIF

What's wrong with it?

Thanks!

On 4 Oct 2005 03:35:19 -0700, "jun bro" <junbro@gmail.com> wrote:

>I failed secure connection by google secure access!
>
>plz, see the snapshot:
>http://upload.mop.com/user/2005/10/03/f1f43920.GIF
>
>What's wrong with it?

What's wrong with you? Are you in Mountain View and near the only two
beta sites that are currently setup to use Google Secure Access VPN?
What it means is that your client could not find a Google VPN
terminating server through which to connect. This is normal if you're
not using their current test locations.

What were you expecting to happen?

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"Jeff Liebermann" <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> wrote in message
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> On 4 Oct 2005 03:35:19 -0700, "jun bro" <junbro@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I failed secure connection by google secure access!
>>
>>plz, see the snapshot:
>>http://upload.mop.com/user/2005/10/03/f1f43920.GIF
>>
>>What's wrong with it?
>
> What's wrong with you? Are you in Mountain View and near the only two
> beta sites that are currently setup to use Google Secure Access VPN?
> What it means is that your client could not find a Google VPN
> terminating server through which to connect. This is normal if you're
> not using their current test locations.
>
> What were you expecting to happen?
>
> --
> Jeff Liebermann jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us
> 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
> Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
> Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558



I live in Illinois and it works just fine for me. I already had a good WPA
enabled, strong signal, wireless G network set up using a WRT54G set up as a
WAP and a PCI card WMP54GX. Installed GSA and it put a network connection
icon down on the task bar called vpn.google.com. Under details it says it's
device name is WAN Miniport (PPTP).
Device type: vpn
Server type: PPP
Transports: TCP/IP
Authentication: MS CHAP V2
Encryption: MPPE 128
Compression: none
PPP multilink framing: off
Server IP address: 192.168.xxx.xxx
Client IP: 192.168.xxx.xxx

Now I said everything works fine, but there's one minor problem. When GSA
is running I can't send email using my normal web hosted email. But if I
try to send using my Gmail account it works. I guess it's a conflict with
smtp somehow?

alien

GSA worked fine for me (Denver), but instead of GSA I prefer to use the
iPig VPN client software now - Just like GSA it is a *free* VPN
service, but it also allows you to set up your own(!) VPN server very
easily. For up to five users, the server is freeware (download from
http://www.iopus.com/ipig )

On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 19:42:07 GMT, "alien" <nofenders@mtco.com> wrote:

>I live in Illinois and it works just fine for me. I already had a good WPA
>enabled, strong signal, wireless G network set up using a WRT54G set up as a
>WAP and a PCI card WMP54GX. Installed GSA and it put a network connection
>icon down on the task bar called vpn.google.com. Under details it says it's
>device name is WAN Miniport (PPTP).
>Device type: vpn
>Server type: PPP
>Transports: TCP/IP
>Authentication: MS CHAP V2
>Encryption: MPPE 128
>Compression: none
>PPP multilink framing: off
>Server IP address: 192.168.xxx.xxx
>Client IP: 192.168.xxx.xxx

Ooops. I'm wrong. I was told by a Google employee that access was
going to be restricted to only their test sites. I guess it's wide
open now. So much for my inside info. It could possibly be
oversubscribed as everyone tries to use it? It'll play with it
tonight. Thanks for the info.

>Now I said everything works fine, but there's one minor problem. When GSA
>is running I can't send email using my normal web hosted email. But if I
>try to send using my Gmail account it works. I guess it's a conflict with
>smtp somehow?

That's common to all VPN's. When connected to the VPN tunnel, your
client computers default gateway moves to the gateway inside the VPN
tunnel. Run IPCONFIG to see for yourself. When you connect to your
ISP's SMTP server through the VPN tunnel, it thinks that the
connection is coming from Google instead of from your WAN IP address.
Since the SMTP is setup to restrict access to only the ISP's
customers, it will reject any email sent via the Google gateway. Of
course, Googles own SMTP server accept outgoing email via a Google
owned gateway. If you're ISP's SMTP server does POP3 before SMTP or
some type of authenticated SMTP, you might be able to convince it to
accept your email.

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150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
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