[pptp-server] A few more questions

[Cowles, Steve]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Walter [mailto:walterm at gliatech.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 2:00 PM
> To: 'Kris Haight'
> Cc: 'pptp-server at lists.schulte.org'
> Subject: RE: [pptp-server] A few more questions
> 
> 
> err reverse that, it looks a lot like this:
> 
> localip 192.0.0.121
> remoteip 192.0.0.201-245
> listen XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
> 

I'm glad you corrected your last post. I was about to respond with... huh!!

FWIW: I have found no reason to specify multiple "localip" addresses for
each VPN. In fact, I have my "localip" set to the same address as the eth0
device of the PopTop server. Maybe someone can enlighten me on "why" I would
want to specify multiple IP's for the local side.

Anyway, to validate the above - perfrom a traceroute to a VPN client from a
desktop client on your private LAN and notice which ip address answered the
arp request. With linux, its always the ethernet interface's ip address that
is listed as the proxyarp when the VPN connection started, NOT the localip
address specified in /etc/pptpd.conf.

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To illustrate, I changed the "localip" to a different IP address other than
what is bound to eth0...