VPN Tunnel Breaks Pidgin

[Ethan Blanton]

Dave Melanson spake unto us the following wisdom:
> I've created and an IPSEC VPN Tunnel for our office.  When I enable the VPN
> Tunnel, Pidgin is disconnected from our IRC server and is the only
> application that stops working.
> 
> As soon as I disable the VPN Tunnel, Pidgin is able to connect to our IRC
> Server and is available for use.

It sounds likely that your VPN tunnel has a firewall which is blocking
IRC connections.  You can try telnetting to your IRC server through
the VPN to verify this.

Ethan
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