Setting up VPN and missing L2TP ports

[chicagotech]

Thank you for the update.

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"Tim Wiser" <TimWiser> wrote in message news:E420A7DF-D78F-4D27-AC82-2E2AD814FA46@microsoft.com...

Hi Bob,

You got it right. For some reason or other I had disabled the Parallel and
L2TP ports in device manager when I was setting the system up. I enabled the
devices again and L2TP is now working

Thanks for your help.


Tim.


"Robert L [MVP - Networking]" wrote:

> The Miniport (L2TP) may be disabled. You may need to enable or re-install it. This search result may help,
>
> RESOLVED: Network Wizard only ...The solution involved reinstalling the WAN Miniport (PPTP) driver. ... new 'MAC Bridge Miniport." 4. Now that it's gone, lets reinstall it. ...
> http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums/vi ... c8bd8963a0
>
>
> Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
> Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
> How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
> "Tim Wiser" <TimWiser> wrote in message news:45CF2804-D4DF-4BCA-B53B-EEACFE9C5B08@microsoft.com...
> I'm currently in the process of setting up a 2003 box as a VPN server. It's
> working fine with PPTP but I would like to move to a certificate-based L2TP
> mechanism, primarily so that it works better with clients behind NAT but also
> for the security.
>
> The problem I'm facing is that in the Ports section of the Routing & Remote
> Access MMC, there's no L2TP ports available. There's only 5 x PPTP ports.
> Yes, I deleted them when I was setting the system up
>
> My question is how can I get these ports to come back? I've tried removiong
> the R&RA role from the server and adding it in again but this didn't do a
> reinstall as I hoped it would do.
>
> I'd love to get back to the default configuration of R&RA. Is this possible?
>