OT: getting knocked off VPN by my wife's answering machine

We have DSL and when a call comes into my wife's answering machine (I
only use my cell), it knocks me off my VPN connection to work.
Internet in general remains OK.

I'm hoping that some of you gurus of this group have some suggestions,
etc. Particularly as she needs a new answering machine. Yes, she uses
a cell too, but she's too retro to give up a land line phone and,
anyway, she often has her cell turned off, has left it in the car or
otherwise misplaced it, etc.

Yirg

Here's a more detailed description for those who might be into it.

The problem is particularly annoying to me because I typically have a
large number of ssh sessions established to work (using putty). I set
a keep-alive on the connections at 120 seconds. Maybe I should lower
this. Losing remote desktop connection to my windows machine is, while
annoying, not such a big deal because when it is re-established it is
in the same state.

yirg.kenya wrote:
> We have DSL and when a call comes into my wife's answering machine (I
> only use my cell), it knocks me off my VPN connection to work.
> Internet in general remains OK.

make sure your phone line setup has dsl filters in the right places

To be more complete about it all, each and every phone wire leading to a
telephone, answering machine, or fax machine needs to have a DSL filter
installed between it and the wall jack. If two telephone devices are
daisy-chained together to share the same wire lead to a wall jack, a DSL filter
should not be installed between them. The RJ11 telephone wire leading to the
DSL modem must NOT have a DSL filter.

If the OP has DSL filters in all the right places and the VPN connection still
gets knocked off by the answering machine, talk to the IT people at work about
the VPN... Ben Myers

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:03:13 +0100, Geoff <nospam@nospamformeplease.invalid>
wrote:

>yirg.kenya wrote:
>> We have DSL and when a call comes into my wife's answering machine (I
>> only use my cell), it knocks me off my VPN connection to work.
>> Internet in general remains OK.
>
>make sure your phone line setup has dsl filters in the right places