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Windows7 PPPoE or VPN connectivity experience – we would like to hear back from you

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Hello Friends,

As you know – Windows7 RC is out and we will like to hear back from you !

In Windows7, we did couple of changes on the remote access client that includes dialup, broadband (aka PPPoE) and VPN scenarios. Windows7 brings in simpler connectivity experience inside View Available Networks (VAN) that is shown in networking system tray icon.

In Windows7 beta release, we heard from you on some PPPoE connectivity issues in certain regions and some PPPoE performance issues. We actively listened to your valuable feedback and quickly acted on it. We have fixed all of those issues in Windows7 RC release.

If you are using Windows7 RC build and still facing any connectivity or performance issues in  dialup, PPPoE or VPN area, please get back to us by sending us an email (click on the Email link above).

We sincerely appreciate your feedback.

With Regards,

Samir Jain

Senior Program Manager

Windows Networking

[This posting is provided “AS IS” with no warranties, and confers no rights.]

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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    I use PPPoE and here are my grudges:
  1.  Since Vista, the built-in client never connects quickly enough even after specifying "Service name". In XP it was always instantaneous, in Vista and Windows 7 RC, it fails sometimes, and usually takes a long time to connect.
  2.  No connection blinking like XP is a huge disappointment for me since it was on the taskbar which is the only always visible area when working with maximized apps. A gadget doesn't cut it. For monitoring whether any network traffic is being transferred, I now use TCPView from Sysinternals which also shows the app accessing it.
  3.  Till XP, I also used a CFOS PPPoE/DSL and it allowed me to simultaneously connect 10 connections at a time (RASPPPOE also did but it doesn't work with Vista and later at all). Now CFOS only allows 1 connection under Windows 7 RC/Vista. As soon as I connect 1 connection, it drops the other or stops transferring data from the earlier one.
  4.  KeepRasConnections value doesn't work=another disappointment for PPPoE user such as myself.
  5.  Windows 7 improves upon notification area customizability yet it takes away ability to show/hide individual connections. Not done.
  • Anonymous
    May 15, 2009
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    May 18, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    May 24, 2009
    Hi Srinivas,   In order to investigate the issue you are seeing we would need RAS and IPSec logs. Can you collect the same and send them to me? (aanandr@microsoft.com)? I am assuming that you are running the RC build. Here is the procedure to follow to collect the logs RAS Logs

Run the netsh commands from an elevated command prompt

  1. Netsh ras diag set tracefacilities enable     <this will enable RAS logging>
  2. Recreate the issue
  3. Netsh ras diag set tracefacilities disable     <this will disable RAS logging> This will create log files under the %WINDIR%tracing directory. Zip these files and send it IPSec Logs
  1. Go to %WINDIR%tracing dir
  2. From an elevated command prompt run the following       - del *       - netsh wfp cap start       - <repro the problem>       - netsh wfp cap stop This will generate .cab file in the same directory. Please send it to me L2TP is not supported with IKEv2 and there is no plan to add support in the near future. We will get back to you regarding question #2 Aanand Ramachandran Program Manager, RRAS

  • Anonymous
    May 24, 2009
    Hi Stephen   Sorry to hear about your problems with Microsoft VPN. The VPN product team at Microsoft is committed to helping you resolve your issues. Can you provide us some info on what the problems are that you are facing and we can take it from there? Aanand Ramachandran Program Manager, RRAS

  • Anonymous
    May 27, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    May 27, 2009
    Hi Anand, Thanks a lot for getting my questions answered. Regarding Question #1), it was a misconfiguration of the certificates on my part, the issue is no longer seen. Thanks much for the detailed debugging steps, anyway :-). Coming to Question #2), about the identity sent in IKE_AUTH message, is there any way we can configure various options like which identity to send, which cipher suites to use etc on the client? Is there any config file that can be used for these options? If so, can I know the location of this config file? Thanks, Srinivas

  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2009
    I installed windows 7 but it doesn't save my pppoe user and pass .. every time i reboot or try to reconnect to internet i have to re-enter both user name and password..