[pptp-server] PPTP behind a Firewall

[Charlie Brady]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Robert Dege wrote:

> Here's what happens:
>
> 1.  Win98 box tries to make a PPTP connection.
> 2.  For some odd reason, ip_masq_pptp module does not load by default.

IP masq modules never load by default.

> I have to manually insmod it.  Once I do that, I start to receive the
> ip_masq_gre errors.  Yet, lsmod claims that ip_masq_pptp is unused:
>
> Module                  Size  Used by
> ip_masq_pptp            6848   0 (unused)
> ip_masq_ftp             2656   1

Yes, it is "unused" - no other module makes use of that module.

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