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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I have a problem with Proxmox 2.1 in combination with Windows Server 2003 and VPN.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>A Windows Server 2003 which is used as a terminal server loses his connection to the offices of our customer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The terminal server is located in our company and the offices create an IPSec-VPN to an IPFire in our company.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Both terminal server and IPFire (VPN-Firewall) are virtualized on the same Proxmox 2.1 server.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The connection is lost for ten minutes. After this it works about an hour and then starts from the beginning.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The server has two ethernet connections, one is for the customer and one is for our backup net.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>| PC and printer – VPN-router | --- (Internet) --- | IPFire – Windows Server 2003| <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>When the server loses its connection to the printers and VPN-routers in the offices, it still can ping the IPFire.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>At the same time the IPFire can ping and connect to the VPN-routers and printers, so the VPN-tunnel is not the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>This is what I tried with the Windows Server 2003:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I tried changing the network interfaces from VIRTIO to RTL8139 without any change. We use the latest stable version of the VIRTIO drivers. If possible, could you send me a link for downloading the latest drivers (maybe unstable, or something).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I tried running the server only with one instead of two CPU-cores.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I migrated the virtual machines on another Proxmox 2.1 server with other hardware, but with no changes at all.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Till last week, before we moved the machines from a Proxmox 1.9 server to one with Proxmox 2.1, everything was fine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>On the Proxmox 2.1 server are running virtual machines with a combination of IPFire and Windows Server 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>without any problems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Please help.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:DE'>Steve<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>