[pptp-server] WINS failing over PopTop

[Cowles, Steve]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Kalos [mailto:ckalos at gothambroadband.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 10:17 AM
> To: pptp-server at lists.schulte.org
> Subject: [pptp-server] WINS failing over PopTop
> 
> 
> 	I've managed to set everything up properly for the VPN 
> server and the Windows clients, with two minor exceptions.
>
> 	1) I'd like to assign a route through the tunnel to our 
> DMZ as well, just to ensure that everything gets encrypted
> coming from our client systems into our network.  Where
> would I add the command to do this.

If your DMZ is on a separate network address outside of the pptp clients
netmask, then you will have to add a route to it manually from the PPTP
client. Plus, without understanding your network architecture, you will
"probably" have to add input/output/forward rules of some sort to allow PPTP
clients access to the DMZ.

> 	2) WINS isn't working.  Considering this is stock Debian
> running the additional ppp modules and so on, this doesn't
> surprise me.  However, there's a bit of a clamor for this.
>  Is there any way to get it up and running?

If you do not have a WINS server on your LAN, then you will need to install
and configure a WINS server.  FWIW: A WINS server can be loaded/configured
on your debian system (through Samba) or any NT server can be configured as
a WINS server.

> 
> 	Also, just to make sure, does the "speed" parameter affect
> both directions for pptp traffic?  Is there a limit to how
> high it can go?

I have not had any problem with the speed setting, but I have read other
posts on this list where people have stated that the maximum throughput of
the tunnel was limited to 155200.