[pptp-server] NIC

Nate Carlson natecars at real-time.com
Fri Oct 6 12:14:10 CDT 2000


On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Alan Chung wrote:
> Do I need to have two network interfaces even on an internal VPN 
> server?  If the server is staying internally, one interface sounds good for me. 

The reason you would want two NIC's would be if this machine was a border
firewall, eg:

----------            ------------    
| Client |-*internet*-| PPTP Svr |-*internal network*
----------            ------------  

If your config looks like..

----------            ------------                    ------------
| Client |-*internet*-| Firewall |-*internal network*-| PPTP Svr |
----------            ------------                    ------------

..and the firewall forwards incoming PPTP requests to the internal PPTP
server, no, you would only need a single NIC. Might need some funky ip
forwarding, though..

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