Thanks Gary. My kernel is Red Hat 2.4.25. Could you please give more details about the patch? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary W. Smith" <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Salim" <salim.si@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 10:03 AM Subject: RE: PPTP/IPSec multiple clients behind iptables NAT PPTP requires a patching of the kernel and a recompile of the kernel and iptables (against the new kernel headers) to make this work. It also matters which kernel version you are using. There have been miscellaneous problems with different kernels report. I believe many have been fixed though. Gary Smith > -----Original Message----- > From: netfilter-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:netfilter- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Salim > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 6:58 PM > To: netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: PPTP/IPSec multiple clients behind iptables NAT > > I am using iptables 1.3.3 > > I had some problems with multiple clients behind NAT(a simple MASQUERADE > rule is set) connecting to the same VPN server. ONly one client can > connect > at a time. > I have enables the CONFIG_IP_NF_PPTP and CONFIG_IP_NF_CT_PROTO_GRE options > in kernel. > > I have read a few posts about this issue in the list from as early as in > 2003. But could not find a conclusion. > > Could you guys please clarify? Is this scenario supported by iptables? If > not, is there a way to get around this issue? > > thanks > Salim >
