Hi All, I''m pulling my hair out trying to get vpn working from a windows client on the internet to my firewall. I have the following pptpd.conf file: option /etc/ppp/options.poptop stimeout 10 speed 115200 localip 196.22.35.1 remoteip 196.22.35.100-110 196.22.35.1 is my public ip address on my firewall, eth0 ip address, also my lan ip adress. options.poptop looks like this: #ipparam PoPToP #dump #debug require-mschap-v2 require-mppe-128 require-mppe-stateless #login lock #mtu 1490 #mru 1490 ms-wins ms-dns 196.22.35.251 multilink proxyarp ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote lcp-echo-failure 30 lcp-echo-interval 5 deflate 0 When I start pptpd I get the following in /var/log/messages file: Mar 10 06:44:28 fw pptpd[31392]: MGR: Manager process started Mar 10 06:44:28 fw pptpd[31392]: MGR: Maximum of 10 connections available Mar 10 06:44:28 fw pptpd: pptpd startup succeeded iptables has the following set: iptables -A INPUT -p 47 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 1723 -j ACCEPT I have added a user and passwd in /etc/ppp/chap-secrets, but am not able to connect from a window$XP client. I know I''m missing something, can anyone help me out here? Thanks Raymond