[pptp-server] PPTP masquerade && MS non-compliance

Jamin Collins JaminC at adapt-tele.com
Fri Jun 22 15:04:58 CDT 2001


Charlie Brady [mailto:charlieb at e-smith.com] wrote:
> The same argument would apply to any other machine doing the 
> routing. That machine cannot control the authorization of 
> additional connections.

Since when can a machine not control whether or not a connection is
authorized?

> I'm unaware of any extended authorization mechanisms which 
> are supported by the PPTP protocol.

It doesn't need to be PPTP that controls the authentication.  The machine
that would be controlling the routing would control whether the connection
was allowed or not.

Jamin W. Collins



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