Ariel, First thing glad that you asked a question, but I am not the right person to do so. I do not have much experience in firewalls and VPN. I am still kind of new myself, I am currently just reading mail in the group. Second.... You sent the message in HTML most of the users in the list will not even allow this kind of message. So please turn it off in your mail program. Third.. Join the firewall list and you can get a much better responce to your question then I could give. I will ask you a couple of question.. Why are you trying to access a local network through your firewall?? That should be behind the firewall, so it should be a direct shot to it. Using VPN for authenticated is also OK, but there is much better ways to do it. Are you on Linux (Unix) or MS (Microsoft). That will give the group a much better idea on the way you need to be helped. OK I have seen that you are using both unix/MS on your network. Also are you using MYSQL or MS SQL?? Lets start from there. Also to join the firewall list go to: majordomo@lists.gnac.net That will allow you to view the firewall list which you will get a lot of help on. When you reply to a message please cc me so that way I can follow what is going on. Steven *********** BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE *********** On 6/4/2001 at 17:22 Ariel Martins <amartins@unitoledo.br> wrote: Mr. Steven, I'm a brazilian guy thats work in a university, and found your e-mail adress in a list (http://www.netsys.com/firewalls/firewalls-2000-02/msg00353.html), so I took the freedom to write this mail, sorry, but I'm just staying crazy. Here in my job have a watchguard firebox I and I need some help. Maybe you can help me?!? We need open access trough firebox I to ms-sql server in local network (192.168.20.2 : 1433). I'm trying use VPN user authenticated in firebox, but the users can't access. Firebox log the folowing: Jan 23 01:51:20 192.168.20.30 pptpd [19605]: Watchguard pptpd 2.2.0 started Jan 23 01:51:20 192.168.20.30 pptpd [19605]: Using interface pptp0 Jan 23 01:51:20 192.168.20.30 kernel: pptp0: daemon attached. Jan 23 01:51:20 192.168.20.30 pptpd [19605]: Connect: pptp0 [0] <--> 200.192.112.234 Jan 23 01:51:50 192.168.20.30 pptpd [19605]: Terminating on signal 2. Jan 23 01:51:50 192.168.20.30 pptpd [19605]: Connection terminated. Jan 23 01:51:50 192.168.20.30 pptpd [19605]: Persist flag not set, so we are exiting. Jan 23 01:51:50 192.168.20.30 kernel: pptp0: pptp_sock_close Jan 23 01:51:50 192.168.20.30 pptpd [19605]: Exit. Watchguard stop build the firebox 1, and now I don't have support to this. Please answer this mail. Any answer will better than silence. /:-) Tank you. PS: Sorry, but my english isn't good. ---------------------------------------------------- Ariel Martins Analista de Suporte *********** END FORWARDED MESSAGE *********** - [To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@lists.gnac.net with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]