I've been working on configuring a L2TP w/ ipSec on my home server using Windows Server 2003. I keep running into a problem with making configuration changes to the Routing and Remote Access Services causing IPSEC to deny connections.

Basically, the PPTP Server responds and functions properly. However, for no reason what-so-ever, the L2TP server refuses all connections unless I reboot RRAS (RemoteAccess) and IPSEC Services (PolicyAgent).

I have to run this script every time I make configuration changes in Routing and Remote Access:

net stop RemoteAccess
net stop PolicyAgent
net start PolicyAgent ------ Very important that IPSEC restarts before RRAS
net start RemoteAccess

Why?