coon2000,
What VPN software are you using? I have started looking for something to open up a CISCO tunnel to work.
You are setting it up on an iPad, right? If you go into the network settings, the built in VPN can easily be configured for L2TP, PPTP or Cisco’s IPSEC. I set it up using L2TP, and after having set up a number of VPN’s, I can honestly say that this was the easiest one, no headaches or problems at all in making it connect. I then went to the App Store and bought Real VNC viewer to connect to desktops.