Problems with VPN and Win98 boxes

Feb 14 04 7:55 am

We are having a lot of repeat problems with VPN on Win98 machines. Upon install the VPN works fine but a day or two later it stops working - and in the Gatekeeper window under connectivity - Extended Networking is gone. We reinstall the client and it works again for a while.

This keeps reocurring with a large number of our tech laptops running Win 98. Is there any solution for this?

Feb 14 04 10:55 am

what version is this?

Adrien

Feb 14 04 11:01 am

Version info show 1.2.2 build 892.

Feb 14 04 11:05 am

are these machines restarted often?

when you say the ENS disappears, does that mean the icon disappears in GateKeeper completely, or just is showing as disabled or not installed?

Adrien

Feb 14 04 11:50 am

The clients are fieldtech laptops so they are constantly restarted...many times a day as the tech moves from call to call. When the problem occurs, it looks like the extended network part was never installed at all.

Feb 14 04 2:29 pm

earlier versions would reset the driver to not start if the machine was rebooted 3 times without WinGare starting.

Normally on win98 WinGate will start each time the system comes up, unless that has been disabled in the registry?

adrien