From: Merv on

Try deleting crypto policy 1 and changing the hash on policy 2 from MD5
to sha so that it matches with the transform set.

Do this with the command line interface from the console not any Cisco
GUI.

From: James on
How? I'm not familiar with any CLI and don't know the commands! Sorry.
If you could point to the prog that would be great.

To save time I did use the GUI and it seems that DES3 will work because
if using DES I get Peer not reponding - don't even get log on option.
Changing 2 to sha and DES3 has not changed the error which I think is
related to one of the log entries:

NOTIFY:NO_PROPOSAL_CHOSEN

whatever that means! Thanks for perservering.

From: James on
Going home to try connecting from there, just in case. What is trying
to take place that fails? It seems that we have established the
security policy as we then move on to establishing the "Securing
communications channel" bit - or is this like coding where to fix an
error it can often be in the line above?!

Will let you know how I get on tonight... thanks again.

From: James on
When connecting from home I don't even get offered to enter my username
& pwd...