[pptp-server] PopTop and NT 4.0 (sp5 128bit)

Mark Pitman map at primenet.com
Thu Sep 30 11:00:52 CDT 1999


There are patches that you have to add for ipchains to pass the pptp
protocols through. It is not "port 47", but protocol 47 (GRE). Take a look
at this website:

ftp://ftp.rubyriver.com/pub/jhardin/masquerade/ip_masq_vpn.html



On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Cowles, Steven W wrote:

> Has anyone in this group successfully connected (using PopTop) and
> transfered data using NT 4.0 (SP5 128bit)? 
> 
> The reason I asked is I have not been successful at transferring data when
> establishing a pptp connection. My linux box (ppp) seems to authenciate, but
> thats about it. Pings, etc... do not work. The route tables etc... look to
> be fine.
> 
> Also, I am trying to connect to my linux box over the internet (through) my
> linux based firewall that is configured with ipchains. I have added what I
> thought were the correct entries i.e. port 47, etc.... If anyone has been
> successful in using poptop through a linux based firewall, could you send me
> your ipchains commands so that I can verify that I have correctly setup my
> system at my end. I really think this is the source of my problems but have
> been unsuccessful at getting any data to pass acroos the VPN.
> 
> I noticed the following error in my log files. Does anyone have an idea if
> this could be the problem? I have noticed some other posts (log files) that
> do not have this entry.
> 
> Sep 30 09:31:10 voyager pptpd[13137]: CTRL: Ignored a SET LINK INFO packet
> with real ACCMs!
> 
> Thanks
> Steve Cowles
> 
> 
> 
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Mark A. Pitman
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