Four hours on the phone with Level 2 engineering.
Apparently, the Feb 5, 2016 firmware update also contained a payload that disables INBOUND VPN connections to the customer's home network. So though I have the correct port forwarding rules to allow my home VPN server to accept and create an INBOUND VPN L2TP Tunnel, the latest firmware push detects and disables this ability, or so they told me.
I created a VPN server on my Mac Mini at home because Verizon does not allow email when you travel outside the US (like when I vacation in Mexico or the Caribbean, or Europe, or anywhere outside the USofA). So to get around their ridiculous service limits, I setup a very simply L2TP VPN service (using the server app for Mac OSX on my mac mini. Now when I travel, I just turn on VPN and my email flows fine. I also use VPN to run my CONTROL4 home automation app which requires a paid subscription to access the CONTROL4 controller at home, or they advise connecting to your home network with VPN, and then you can use the app without paying for their remote service.
So now in Verizon's great wisdom, they feel that establishing a VPN connection to your home network is a security risk and have shut it down, by trickery and backdoor whoring of the customer's premise equipment, sneaking it in through a firmware update meant to separate wifi 2.4ghz and 5ghz SSIDs. Bullcrap!
So I ask those advanced readers of this forum... Do you have home VPN services and are you also experiencing the shutdown of this capability? Or are the level 2 engineering yolkles dumping a story on me since they can't tell me why it works for about an hour when the router reboots, but then stops!
Remember folks, this is only for the G1100 Quantum Gateway Router (not actiontec)...
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