Mac OSX – Testing Packet Fragmentation Over VPN
Jun15

Mac OSX – Testing Packet Fragmentation Over VPN

KB ID 0001204  Problem Many moons ago I wrote a post about a problem where I had no RDP over a VPN connection, and all the hoops I jumped though to troubleshoot and fix the problem. Today I had a similar problem, I was connected to a client via Cisco AnyConnect, and I had hair-pinned that traffic, from the client site, over an IPSEC VPN to their servers in the Data Center. Pings were successful, but not RDP.  To be honest this affects...

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Cannot Remote Desktop over VPN connection
Nov17

Cannot Remote Desktop over VPN connection

KB ID 0000845  Problem This one had me well and truly stumped! The client has two sites and from their remote site they could not open a remote Desktop connection to a server at the main site. RDP Stuck at Securing remote connection. At first, because the client had SBS at their main site I assumed this was the problem, but sadly it was not. Solution The following process goes through the steps taken to identify and rectify the...

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