Re: PPTP connection tracking and Poptop on same box

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On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 12:03:32AM +0000, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Sunday 18 January 2004 11:47 pm, Carl Farrington wrote:
> 
> > From: Antony Stone [mailto:Antony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> >
> > > On Sunday 18 January 2004 11:00 pm, Carl Farrington wrote:
> > > > Does anybody know if there is a workaround for this problem? As soon
> > > > as I insmod ip_nat_pptp , poptop cannot accept any incoming pptp
> > > > connections.
> >
> > > Why do you want to use both of these on the same box?
> 
> > Well, I want to do both. I am putting together a router/gateway box. It
> > performs NAT for all the workstations on the private side of the box
> > (hence the need for ip_nat_pptp since some workstations need to contact
> > outside pptp servers), and also allows access from the outside when
> > users are roaming (hence the need for poptop).
> >
> > Astaro Security Linux (www.astaro.com) is one product which achieves
> > this without problem using poptop, as is win2k rras.
> 
> In that case your simplest solution might be to ask Astaro how they've done 
> it.   Their products are based on Linux / netfilter etc, so should be fully 
> GPL.

If you read the PPTP helper sourcecode, you will find that I wrote it
for astaro.  There's no black magic in ASL, they're using the same code
that is in patch-o-matic.

Carl: Are you sure you are running the latest pptp helper from
patch-o-matic (20031219) ?

> Antony
 

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