[pptp-server] Routing problem (?)

[Vitor Colaço]

Vitor Colaço wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm facing a problem with my two new brand instalations of pptpd. It's
> running and accepting connections, but this happens:
> 
> pptp server is 192.168.0.1
> network addresses for clients are, for example, 192.168.0.100-150
> and I have a program to wich I connect in 192.168.0.2
> 
> however,
> I login to pptp server OK
> I can ping pptp server
> pptp server can ping both connected client and 192.168.0.2
> pptp client cant connect 192.168.0.2 or any of the other network
> addresses, except 192.168.0.1
> 
> It seems to me routing is messed up somewhere...but damn me if I know

Ok...nuttin' like reading mlist archives (yes, I'm lazy)

problem was with ipforwarding on the pptp server. Just applied command 
"echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward" and it just worked by magik!

Thank you for your doubt Brian Aust, and thank you for the solution
Scott M. Stone

Regards,

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Vitor Colaco