[pptp-server] Multi VPN

[Steve Jorgensen]

[ sorry - I forgot to change the recipient on the try of this reply ]

I do that too, but it took me weeks to debug WINS, etc.  In retrospect, it 
might have been less hassle to have each machine make its own connection, 
then it maps into the remote subnet, and uses SMB like everyone else.  I 
never would have had to learn what a WINS server was, much less that you 
should never install it on your RRAS machine unless you are a hard core 
masochist.

I guess that's a possible reason - that, and there are fewer machines on 
the remote LAN that could be used as bridges to hack the host LAN.

On the other side of the coin, Windows 9x and Me suffer from memory 
fragmentation issues that can require rebooting in order to make PPP or 
PPTP work again.  That's not an issue when you use a router to handle the 
PPTP link.  I've often thought it might be interesting to have a server 
that accepts PPPoE connections from inside the LAN and connects them to the 
PPTP connection to the other LAN.  The PPTP connection would be up whenever 
one or more PPPoE connections was up and go down when the PPPoE count 
reaches zero, and only PPPoE links would get routed.  One neat thing about 
this scenario is that the host could assign you a subnet, and you can use 
it successfully without renumbering your LAN IP addresses.

On Thursday, December 13, 2001 1:48 PM, George Vieira 
[SMTP:GeorgeV at citadelcomputer.com.au] wrote:
> What I don;t understand is why would you have multiple connections from 
the
> same network?
> Why doesn't the firewall at Network B connect to Network A and route all
> traffic through so both networks can access each other.. I do that at 
home
> with work..
>
>
> 10.10.10.x network
> |
> 10.10.10.254 (route add -net 192.168.1.0/24 gw 10.0.0.1
>   10.0.0.2
>   |
>   |
>   net
>   |
>   |
>   10.0.0.1 (route add -net 10.10.10.0/24 10.0.0.2
> 192.168.1.254
> |
> 192.168.1.X network
>
> You can firewall people you don't want access...
>
> Or am I missing something here...???
>
>
> thanks,
> George Vieira
> Systems Manager
> Citadel Computer Systems P/L
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Taylor [mailto:scottt at soccer.com]
> Sent: Friday, 14 December 2001 2:27 AM
> To: pptp-server at lists.schulte.org
> Subject: [pptp-server] Multi VPN
>
>
>
> Does anyone know of a way to allow multiple VPN connections from one
> network to the same VPN server, using a 2.4 kernel?
>
> I have it working on a 2.2.17 kernel with patches from the VPN masq
> how to. Anyone got it working on 2.4?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Scully
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