[pptp-server] Fwd: OK, I've been seeing things that indicate this works..
Christopher Schulte
christopher at schulte.org
Wed Dec 22 17:53:42 CST 1999
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>Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 17:03:20 -0500
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>From: Joe Beauchamp <jbeauchamp at 4anything.com>
>Subject: OK, I've been seeing things that indicate this works..
>
>I'm having a nasty time just trying to make the basics work. I have a PC
>win98 being masqueraded through a linux box and something is not getting
>through because it fails differently from when I move it to the other side
>of the box.
>
>I would think that this is a common setup -- machines behind a "firewall"
>masq'd and doing VPN to elsewhere. Now, when I send the connection to
>another linux box running pptpd, it connects, but I don't see machines. So,
>I've read here about adding lmhosts, wins via samba, and that it could be
>routing. I'm still stuck.
>
>1. what is being stopped from connecting when I have the masq'd machine
>going through linux to an NT VPN on the other side of the linux box?
>
>2. Why can't I see those computers? I can see them if I overtly put in an
>IP instead of the computer name. Still using LMHOSTS, WINS.
>
>This **IS** supposed to be the easy part, right?
>
>Using linux-2.2.14p16 (thought a new kernel might fix some problems --
didn't).
>dhcpd running for the masq'd machine 192.168.2.10 and the machines on the
>other side of linux have real addresses.
>
>I'm using ipchains (it would be nice to put that up first in the
>documentation since I spent a long while studying the older stuff that I
>didn't need to know for the 2.2 kernels -- I think).
>
>Isn't there a simple formula to set this up? Thanks for pointers!!!
>
>-- Joe Beauchamp
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