On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:39:14AM -0500, K. Shantanu wrote: > Hi, > I have just installed Mandrake Linux 10.0 (Official). Kernel Used is 2.6.3-7mdksmp. > I want to connect to my client's PPTP server from a windows based pptp client. > Are there any gotchas for the same? Or do I just need to open port 47 and 1723, > protocol tcp for it? yes--if your are performing SNAT/MASQ for your entire internal network on your gateway, it won't work. there is a PPTP conntrack and nat module in POM for this situation, but it will only compile against a 2.4 kernel. one option would be to give the PPTP client a dedicated public IP and perform a one-to-one SNAT/DNAT for that client and allow TCP 1723 and IP protocol 47 outbound from that client and IP protocol 47 inbound to that client from the PPTP server. -j -- Jason Opperisano <opie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
