[pptp-server] Win VPN clients behind RedHat6.2 firewall connections to WinNT4 VPN server fails

[Tom Eastep]

Thus spoke Steve Westerhouse:

> I applied the VPN masq 2.2.14 patch to the source tree, created a .config
> file and attempted to build the kernel.  Compilation fails with the
> following messages.
> 
> 
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fom
> it-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -mali
> gn-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=686   -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -
> c ip_masq.c
> ip_masq.c:389: `ip_masq_hash' undeclared here (not in a function)
> ip_masq.c:389: initializer element for `__ksymtab_ip_masq_hash.value' is not
> constant
> ip_masq.c:390: `ip_masq_unhash' undeclared here (not in a function)
> ip_masq.c:390: initializer element for `__ksymtab_ip_masq_unhash.value' is
> not constant
> ip_masq.c:332: warning: `masq_port_lock' defined but not used
> make[3]: *** [ip_masq.o] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/net/ipv4'
> make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/net/ipv4'
> make[1]: *** [_subdir_ipv4] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/net'
> make: *** [_dir_net] Error 2
> 
> 
> 
> The patch log file indicates that everything patched ok.  Is there an error
> in the patch itself?
> 

I've had this problem trying to build PPTP masq into the kernel -- I
always compile it as a module and that works fine.

-Tom
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