If you're having trouble with networking on both the host and guest machines, and are running Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 on a broadcom network card, the chances are that you're running old drivers. Update them directly from the broadcom website and you should be good to go.
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I've used fail2ban on various machines for quite some time, usually only to guard SSH. Sadly this morning I woke up to another couple of gig gone in futile trackback spamming attempts and decided to write a quick regex to cover myself as it was starting to become more than a slight annoyance.
Able to connect, but appear not to beable to recieve any packets? Go into the properties of the VPN, go to security and untick "Require data encryption (disconnect if none)". In XP < SP3 this has always been ticked for my tunnels and I've never had a disconnection, but it appears that something in SP3 RC0 …