VPN cannot be established
Following the description of AVM – the manufacturer of the Fritz!Box – to create a VPN tunnel, I found out it requires additional software on any PC that wants to set up such a connection: first in order to create a file (the connection is IPSec based), import that file into the router and into a PC-based program. The first is no problem, but the second one fails. Probably because the router cannot be located? Because though I should be able to connect over the designed port, eventually via a server at AVM, but that fails as well. I know I have remote management enabled, and all other access succeeeds (this post is proof of that…).
Merely a nuissance, I have already ordered the new Vigor router, and that will arrive any day of this week. Setting it up is easy aside the old one, just side by side: Although the 2920 is said to be the successor of the 2910, the configuration of the latter cannot be read in by the new version….Draytek could have done a better job.
Though it works now, the Fritz!Box lacks the facility to block access by address – be it a single address of a complete network. That already showed in the FTP and mail logs…..
What goes on behind the doors of the (private) data center