Problem: Websites with VPN and Opera (Vista/Win 7)

I have now the latest firewall module (1054) but i still have the same problem with some webpages within the Opera browser. Many webpages work fine but two, who i need very often, are absolutely horrible: Wikipedia and Google.
When i try to start a search on these two pages or just try to open the website it takes minutes or the webpage loads with failures (e.g. image failures) or i simply get an error message that Opera could not establish a connection with the server. Only in few cases there is a short time period (some minutes) where the websites always load within seconds. But after that "working well period" everything is as worse as before. So the problem does not always occur but most of the times and on several webpages.

Here is what i can say to maybe localize the problem:
- It doesn't occur under Windows XP, but on Vista and Windows 7
- Changings of the ESS "active mode" settings don't solve the problem
- When i disable the ESS firewall ("do not filter network traffic") and activate the windows 7 firewall everything works fine.
- Within Firefox the probles doesn't occur as far as i can say (i only test it sometimes with Firefox because Opera is my default browser)

So the problem is due to the ESS Firewall under Vista and Win 7.

At the moment i use the latest ESS, Windows 7, Opera 10, and the Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client 2.4.0202 (but it also occur with the "normal" Cisco VPN Client 5.0.05.290).

Does anyone know a solution? It is really very time consuming.
I have to use the VPN Client to get connected with the internet at university.

 

If you are positive that the problem is caused by the firewall (assuming that disabling only HTTP checking in the main setup tree doesn't make a difference), try enabling logging all blocked connections in the IDS section of the firewall setup, replicate the problem and eventually check the firewall log for details about blocked connections. Subsequently you can try adjusting the appropriate rule or disabling it completely.

 

Ok, i will check that tomorrow. Thanks

 

Ok, now i reproduced the problem and the log file looks like this (the disabling of HTTP checking didn't help). I'm no expert, what kind of target is this (192.88.99.1) and what can is do to solve this problem?
I'm running the firewall in the "automatic mode with exeptions". The only exeption i have is that i deny MS Word web access.

 

And this target as well with no rules:

 

I had a lot of no rules found.

Reinstall ESET SS and chose interactive mode then create new rules - all no rules found will disapeares. (for me it was only one method)

without reinstaling - if you chose only interactive mode then you will see same No rules found error

 

But isn't the "automatic mode" a global rule?
I've already used the "interactive mode" for a couple of month (selected during the installation) but the result was the same.

 

then sorry ... in my case it works as i described :/

 

Thank you nevertheless.

Does maybe some one else know how to configure ESS to solve the problem?

 

*up again*

 

Well... no one knows how ESS has to be configured to solve this?

 

Ok, since the last release of ESS the google search stopped working completely. Now opera shows an "error page" within a second witch says that there are networkproblems. Searching via bing works without problems. Even Wikipedia works now.

So: google = worse, Wikipedia= better.

 

Does disabling the firewall or HTTP checking in the main setup (F5) -> Antivirus and antispyware -> Web access protection -> HTTP, HTTPS make a difference?

 

I didn't use my laptop since my last post. Today i started it, received the ESS updates and now everything works without problems. But i didn't cange anything ?!
Is it maybe the updated antivirus and antispyware scanner module?

 

Surely not, this module has nothing to do with networking. Maybe something else on your computer has updated which fixed the issue.

 

Well, maybe it was one of those short peroids where it works yesterday because today it doesn' t work anymore. Even if i disable the HTTP checking.
But when i disable the ESS Firewall completely, it works. So in my opinion the problem must be the ESS Firewall.

 

Hi MuffPotter,
according to your log, creating a rule allowing bidirectional communication for protocol 41 (ISATAP) should do the trick:

 

Just for my understanding, what exactly is protocol 41?

Ok i created the rule. Google works now very fast but, a bit strange, wikipedia is very slow and the log file says during the process of loading wikipedia that there is an "Incorrect IP packet lenght".
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Well as i type this, wikipedia works fast as well as is seems.
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And again it doesn't work on both websites with the same event: "Incorrect IP packet lenght". So it works sometimes but often not.

 

For more information about ISATAP protocol (41), read this article at Wikipedia for instance.

As for the error "Incorrect IP packet length", create 2 logs with Wireshark; one with firewall enabled when the error occurs and the other with firewall disabled when it doesn't. When replicating the issue with firewall enabled, make sure to have logging all blocked connections enabled as we'll need it, too, for perusal.

 

Well i installed Wireshark now but i'm not sure what you want me to do with it. How can i create those logs with Wireshark?

 

maybe this would help you

http://portforward.com/networking/wireshark.htm