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

[Edward King]

Try using the route command on the NT box to define the default gateway and routes
to other subnets.  I do know that NT puts in a default route out the dial-up
connection when you make the connection (and then clears it when the connection is
cleared).

The route command is similar to that in Unix, and there are some doc pages on it in
the help -- I haven't used it in a while, but there is a way to make the route
permanent, or you could create a batch file that would setup your routing (although
you'd have to run it after connecting).

Ed King

Yan Seiner wrote:

> 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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