[pptp-server] Semi-advanced Routing

[Thomas Koschate]

On 2000-03-21 12:37:18, Scott M. Stone wrote:

>> The question is, is there a way of assigning that route as part of the 
PPTP 
>> login?  I'd rather not have those Windoze users have to do anything too 
>> complex, particularly since there will ultimately be a third private 
>> network involved, and I want them to be able to dial into any of the 
three 
>> nets, just in case one of them is down.
>
>make sure the win95 clients have 'use default gateway on remote network'
>checked in the dialup networking settings and it should work
>automatically.  Make sure that you're using proxyARP on the pptpd server,
>though, or the 172.16.0.0/24 machines won't have a route back.

Thanks for the hint.  This works fine on my NT4 laptop, but does have one 
unfortunate side effect:  The laptop loses contact with the rest of the 
internet.  The route that is set up pulls everything into the PPTP 
interface.  I have no problem with the concept of internet traffic then 
going through the server firewall again (although it does seem a little 
redundant!), but the routing doesn't seem to be happening.  I thought it 
might be an issue of ipchains rules, so I manually set some appropriate 
rules, but this doesn't seem to have cured the issue.
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