Yes, that part I know about. At home I only ever connect to the office
from one machine at a time. Even so, it's very flakey. In fact, right
now it's unusable.

Based on feedback I'm looking at replacing the Linksys as a first
step. Unfortunately, it doesn't really seem like any of the low end
home routers win much praise. (The WRV200 I'm using now is actually
supposed to be business class--and much of the time its internal web
server stops responding!) I can't run a PC at home full time like I
can at the office, so at the moment I'm looking into two options:
putting something like DD-WRT onto an old Linksys or getting one of
the small hardware kits that can run m0n0wall.

On 1/15/08, mtnbkr <waa dash m0n0wall at revpol dot com> wrote:
> Michael Lenaghan wrote:
> > I'm running M0n0wall 1.231 at the office. At home I have a LinkSys
> > WRV200 and a few computers, but I mostly use a Mac running Leopard.
> >
> > Quite often when I try to connect to the office using PPTP the
> > connection fails. I try again a few times and eventually it succeeds.
> >
> > Is that a common problem? Is it a problem associated with either Macs
> > or the LinkSys?
> >
> > Thanks for any insight...
>
> The problem is probably related to the "only one PPTP connection out
> through a NAT firewall" issue.
>
> Once one machine makes a PPTP connection over the Linksys NAT firewall,
> you will not be able to connect with the other machines to the same PPTP
> server at your office.
>
> I pretty sure that I saw a FAQ about this on the m0n0wall site, but I
> can not seem to find the link now.
>
> --
> Bill Arlofski
> Reverse Polarity, LLC
>