Re: Shorewall and PPTP

Roman
2005-10-22T15:36:23Z

Hy again!

Tom Eastep wrote:

>I can''t tell without seeing your pptpd configuration but I notice
that you are
>masquerading connections out of the ppp+ devices so I would guess that it is
>a routing problem.
>
>
Yes I think too that it is a routing problem. Here are my config files
(attached).

I do masquerade the ppp+ connections. Before I did that - I was not able
to reach a connected peer from inside the LAN...

>These symptoms are caused by the lack of PPTP Connection/NAT helpers in your
>kernel. Some distributions include the patches that provide those helpers
and
>some don''t. Unfortunately, with recent kernels, people are
reporting on the
>Netfilter list that they have not been able to apply those patches and get
>them to work.
>
>
>
So this seems to be a similar problem to that described in
http://www.shorewall.net/PPTP.htm#ClientsBehind. I don''t think that I
need to resolve this right now. This situation will be very very rare.
I just mentioned it because I thought that it may be related with the
first problem ... But at least I know now what''s to do with this ...
thanks again!