08-27-2021, 08:58 AM
Remember that time I was helping my buddy set up his home office server? He was trying to connect remotely but the VPN kept flipping out. One minute it's connected, next it's dropping dead and trying again. We figured it was the server acting up from some old config. Or maybe the firewall was being too picky. Spent hours poking around.
But anyway, first thing you wanna do is restart the VPN service on your server. Just hop into services.msc and bounce the Routing and Remote Access guy. That fixes half the glitches I see. If it's still looping, check your network adapter settings. Sometimes the IP configs get wonky. Flush the DNS cache too, with ipconfig slash flushdns in command prompt. Run it as admin, you know.
Hmmm, or it could be the client side. Make sure your router isn't throttling the connection. Update those network drivers if they're ancient. And peek at event viewer for error logs. They spill the beans on what's looping why. If it's a domain issue, verify the group policies aren't clashing.
Weirdly enough, disabling IPv6 sometimes straightens it out. Toggle that in adapter properties. Test with a different VPN protocol too, like switching to IKEv2 if you're on SSTP. Covers the bases there.
Oh, and if none of that clicks, a full server reboot often shakes it loose. But try the small stuff first.
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