VPN connection disconnects Airport Extreme connected disk

I have had my airport extreme (11n) since it came out. Not a single issue with it until last week.
Seems since I updated the airport utility software (not the firmware), my airport attached disk disconnects when I connect to my work's VPN. This never happened before. I then installed the AEBS firmware update last night (7.3.2) - this did not help.
Anyone know if there is a setting that can be changed to fix this?
FYI - I have the latest versions of all firmware and software installed on both my puter and airport.

Airport firmware does not include a VPN server but if all you want to do is forward the ports to a VPN server on your local network you need to ensure iCloud Back to my Mac is disabled both on the router and the Mac running VPN.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2357772

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