Question : Cannot establish a VPN connection - Event ID 20209

We have had our VPN setup and working for quite some time. All employees off-site can still successfully connect to the VPN except for one who is out of state. She is at a conference and everytime she tries to connect to the VPN she generates one of these warnings in the eventlog. She claims that there are people there from other companies and they are able to get on their VPNs. So it sounds like the issue is on our side, but if everyone else can connect to the VPN, where is the difference? Please help me find where the issue resides.

Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Pro laptop

Event Type:      Warning
Event Source:      Rasman
Event Category:      None
Event ID:      20209
Computer:      MYSERVER
Description:
A connection between the VPN server and the VPN client 68.248.117.2 has been established, but the VPN connection cannot be completed. The most common cause for this is that a firewall or router between the VPN server and the VPN client is not configured to allow Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) packets (protocol 47). Verify that the firewalls and routers between your VPN server and the Internet allow GRE packets. Make sure the firewalls and routers on the user's network are also configured to allow GRE packets. If the problem persists, have the user contact the Internet service provider (ISP) to determine whether the ISP might be blocking GRE packets.

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Answer : Cannot establish a VPN connection - Event ID 20209

Well, I would tend to think that so long as you can connect any clients to your VPN (especially if it has been working for some time and you haven't made any changes), and her computer also was able to connect and no changes were made to it, then the only other unknown is the hotels routers.

Given that some people are able to connect I might guess that A) They're not connecting to a VPN, maybe using RPC over HTTP, e.g. (I know my users can barely spell VPN, much less know whether they're connected or not), B) either some others, or your person, are connected to the wrong router (maybe a nearby house/apartment), or C) others at the hotel are using other VPN clients that don't depend on GRE (I'm only familiar with PPTP, so I don't know how likely that is) or D) The hotel's got a half-decent router but still has a limit that's being reached as far as the number of GRE connections it can keep track of.