[pptp-server] Making this thing useful

Mon Jun 25 15:06:12 CDT 2001

robert <berzerke at swbell.net> on 06/25/2001 02:43:57 PM

  To:          "Lech, Dan" <DLech at csicorp-us.com>,            
               "'pptp-server at lists.schulte.org'"              
               <pptp-server at lists.schulte.org>                

  cc:          (bcc: Chris Tooley/AMOA)                       

  Subject      Re: [pptp-server] Making this thing useful     
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See the howto at http://home.swbell.net/berzerke .  Your options file looks
like its missing quite a few options, and you didn't even talk about what
firewall rules, if any, could be getting in the way.

On Monday 25 June 2001 10:30, Lech, Dan wrote:
> Alright,
> I am running RedHat 7.1 and PoPToP v1.0.1  I have one NIC installed with a
> real world IP and another installed on our private network. I followed all
> the instructions and I can get my win98 machine to authenticate on the VPN,
> but I can't do anything with it. I can ping the internal nic on the PoPToP
> server but I can't make a connection to any of the machines on the network.
> I know I am missing some fundamental concept but I can't figure out what.
> Also, this machine is not used for anything else (i.e. proxy, firewall,
> etc)
>
> Below are my config files:
>
> # pptpd.conf
> speed 115200
> localip 192.168.1.12
> remoteip 192.168.2.234-238,192.168.2.245
>
> # options
> debug
> name vpnsrv01
> auth
> require-chap
> proxyarp
>
> Any advice would be helpfull,
> Dan
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You may also need to echo "1" to /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward to get ip
forwarding to work.

Chris Tooley