[pptp-server] winNT pptp is default connection(OT)

[Yan Seiner]

I noticed this the other day.  I use a dial-up so my performance hit is
tremendous...

Just surfing the web on the NT box my packets go down the modem line to
the pptp server, there to time out or get masqed to get put back on the
web (via the same dialup) then back to the masqed pptp server, and then
back to the NT box.

So if you clear the "use default gateway" box for the pptp connection
applet on the NT box all is well, right?   WRONG. NT is too stupid to
set up a route just to the pptp host or to the pptp-served subnet; it's
all or nothing.  If you don't check the "defauylt route" box, nothing
gets to the pptp server.

So has anyone figured out how to set up the routes so that the default
route is to the ISP and the internal IPs get sent to the pptp server?

--Yan

"T.Shaw" wrote:
> 
> Hello all.. this isn't specific to Poptop, but since I'm using it I was
> wondering if anyone else noticed this behavior.
> I'm running NT 4.0(sp5) pptp connection to my poptop server. Works great.
> The thing I'm noticing is that when I create my connection (thru DSL),
> The pptp connection is the default 'interface' of all network traffic. I would
> think that after I get a connection going depending on where the packets are
> supposed to go, it would go to that interface. Hmm maybe I have to setup some
> static routes on my Winnt box..
> 
> Has anyone seen this???  Just doing a traceroute from my winNT box to the
> external interface of my router takes me out the pptp connection, through the
> internet, then back in again. Yuck..
> 
> Terrelle Shaw
> hshaw at xytek.org
> http://www.xytek.org
> 
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