Persistent VPN connection

Hi. I need to be connected to my Mac Book Pro at work. Using OSX Lion. I've noticed that it often just disconnects.
In the "Advanced" options in the VPN in Network settings, I have these two disabled:
- Disconnect when user logs off
- Disconnect when user switches account
I searched the web and found an AppleScript that auto-reconnects. That doesn't work for me in OSX Lion, and anyway it's a bad solution as it remains in the memory and checks every 30 seconds.
Any other ideas?
Thanks!

Unfourtunatly, I myself have been having this issue, it turns out, when you're device goes into its sleep mode/auto-lock, VPN turns off probably for a battery saving feature. However, it refuses to turn back on, I've tried almost everything I can think of to no luck. Either it's a glitch with iOS5 or Apple doesnt care much for VPNs for enterprise usage.

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Thank you for the suggestion. I have successfully connected through the VPN router when the one client was unable to get VPN throughput working.
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mask 255.255.255.0
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interface 192.168.0.11
metric 21
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interface 192.168.0.11
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Hi there, I am trying to connect to my server at work from home using a vpn connection. It connects fine and the time ticks along, but when i click go - connect to server, it comes up with connection failed. Please help!

... when i click go - connect to server, it comes up with connection failed.
If you're trying to connect to a Bonjour server on the remote network, that won't work over a layer 3 VPN. Use something like Hamachi or one of the SSH-tunnelling Bonjour proxy apps for that.

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If purchases are made on her account, to a computer authorized to my account, can I put those songs on my iPod?
If you connect your iPod to her computer, yes. Tracks download only to the computer from which they're purchased, regardless of which iTunes Store account is used for the purchase. Or you could copy the tracks from her computer to yours and then authorize your computer to her iTunes Store account. But that's sort of defeating the original purpose, it would seem to me.
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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w8itpronetworking/threads
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It was quite simple.
I was connected to VPN.
I upgraded Lenovo system update in two steps.
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We set up an OS X server in a remote facility and are connecting to it over a VPN connection (Netgear Firewall).
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I am a networking newbie with 2 small retail stores. I would like to create a persistent VPN between the stores. I already have a PIX 501 firewall, and I am looking at getting an ASA 5505. Would I have any problems creating a persistent VPN between these two firewalls?

No problems whatsoever :-)
There are loads of examples for the config on the Cisco website, and basically these boxes can run exactly the same software, so the config on each is virtually the same. Main difference is the ASA defines the interfaces in a different way. Even if you have different versions of software, say 6.3 on the PIX and 7.2 on the ASA they will still work fine for the VPN, just the configs will be a lot more different. Hope this helps to remove any worries you had?

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Good morning everyone,
At my last position I was IT Director whose area of expertise was database and application development. All of the company's networking planning and maintainence I entrusted to my sysadmin, Salvadore. Back in 2004 we began implementing major changes in the network. Salvadore recommended SonicWALL firewalls. He did a fantastic job of securing our valuable server assets. Among the many improvements Salvadore established VPN access to the datacenter assets for mobile employees. What I remember especially well was the ease-of-use: start the VPN Client then RDP to a server or connect with SQL Server, in addition to connecting to all devices on my home network. It was absolutely beautiful!
Fast forward to today. I have since retired. I do a little bit of daytrading on the side for entertainment. I leased a dedicated server to run an application that runs continuously 24 hours a day, 5 days a week. I contacted Salvadore to do a security audit on the server. As expected the server was under constant assault by bots trying to hack the RDP port. Salvadore recommended a firewall. The datacenter host offered us two choices of Cisco firewalls, one of which we chose: ASA 5505.
Today I have a secure server which pleases me. The one thing that bothers me however is that I lose access to my home network devices while the VPN Client is connected. Here are the symptoms:
I cannot send an email with Outlook as I normally do by relaying off of my Internet provider's SMTP server.
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I cannot access my Seagate network storage drive.
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My wireless adapter (which I use from this laptop) identifies itself as "Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection" in IPCONFIG. IPv4 address is 192.168.0.5. Default Gateway: 192.168.0.1.
After I connect the VPN Client, IPCONFIG reports a new adapter: "Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2". IPv4 address is 10.0.10.4. Default Gateway: 10.0.10.1.
When I launch Windows Task Manager and click on the Networking tab, I see those two adapters.
When launch IE and go to bandwidthplace.com to run a test, I see all of the network traffic going over "Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2".
When I disconnect VPN and then rerun the bandwidth test, I see that all of the network traffic now goes over "Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection".
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My Internet Provider will only allow me to relay off of their email servers if I am connected to their network.
TradeStation refuses connection to their network because my credentials do not match my network address.
There is no Seagate network storage device on the remote server network.
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Is this the best I can hope for?
Must all traffic be routed through the VPN connection?
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How can I use VPN connection to access my Outlook email?

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crypto ipsec security-association lifetime kilobytes 4608000
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hash md5
group 2
lifetime 86400
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tunnel-group 68.xx.xxx.xxx ipsec-attributes
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inspect h323 h225
inspect h323 ras
inspect rsh
inspect rtsp
inspect esmtp
inspect sqlnet
inspect skinny
inspect sunrpc
inspect xdmcp
inspect sip
inspect netbios
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Hello Belnet,
What do the logs show from the ASA.
Can you post them ??
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