Soon after connecting, do you get a message saying Remote peer terminated connection or Remote peer no longer responding?
If so, you may be being blocked from making a connection by a “firewall”. In the first instance we’d suggest trying the new Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client which uses different ports for communications and is likely to be less prone to firewall issues. See the main VPN pages for links to downloads and instructions. Alternatively you can try the following. The issue could be: On your own machine. The standard system firewalls included in Windows XP and Mac OS X should not need any special configuration in order to work with current releases of VPN. Some technical information relating to the use of VPN with the Windows XP firewall is provided at http://ict.cas.psu.edu/training/howto/comm/vpn4.8-xpsp2.htm. If you have a third-party firewall product installed such as ZoneAlarm installed, this may need to have VPN added to its “allowed” list (or removed from its “blocked” list). You will need to consult the firewall documentation for details of how to do this. In a router box you use to share y
