[pptp-server] Coolest accomplishments with linux and PoPToP

[Andrew McRory]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Steve Cody wrote:

> Are we allowed to brag about something we were able to accomplish with linux
> on this list?  I hope so.
> 
> My company has a Frac. T1 to our corporate office.  Yesterday, the T1 went
> down and our MS mailservers (Exchange Server) could no longer speak.  The
> mail to and from our Corporate office was just backing up.  One of the linux
> routers at my location is a VPN server, and we also have a 128K Internet
> pipe.  I was able take our linux firewall/router at our corp and through
> it's Internet connection, connect to our network via the VPN (not previously
> done before, but entirely set up on the fly after the WAN connection went
> down).  After some juggling with the firewall and disabling certain
> masquerading, I was able to get our Exchange Servers to speak again and send
> all of their queued mail.
> 
> This was accomplished with:
> 
> Two Redhat boxes
> 128K and 56K Internet connections (Frac T1 was 256K)
> PoPToP linux PPTP server
> PPTP linux client
> some fun routing changes
> changes to firewall ruleset to stop masquerading the traffic that went
> through this VPN


Very good! This is where linux shines... think of doing this with MS
products... it might work first time (and in that case we're probably
happy) or it might not (in that case we reload and try again
-frustration!)... heh...



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