Ten days without an update? Don't want to slip back into the bad old ways.
It certainly hasn't been a quiet ten days - as well as changing my home broadband connection, we've gone through the pain of a new ISP at work as well. That didn't go as smoothly as I'd have liked, despite setting up as much as I could beforehand. Various links broke, and we were only able to reconnect to some sites by dint of efforts from all sides.
However, the update did fix the bits that I wanted to get done. Apart from yielding a markedly quicker connection - at the cost of ensuring the large downloads get done out of office hours - it also meant the return of encrypted packets. All the VPN and secure links started working again, proving beyond reasonable doubt that the cause of our previous issues lay with Eclipse.
We did see a few hiccups, where unrelated problems were interpreted as being down to the network change, but that's par for the course. Basically, I'm happy with the outcome. The firewall configuration file is a lot smaller, we know that things will work without some of the more complex and probably completely unnecessary workarounds that had been included: this means I can have more confidence in changes and managing the system, We will also be able to play with multiple incoming secure connections - not being restricted to a single IP address any longer, I can start to use L2TP for the RAS connections, making everyone happier. Did I say something about the firewall being simpler? Ah well, can't have everything.
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