[pptp-server] win2k, pptpd 1.2.2, pppd 2.4.0 and Linux 2.4.2

[robert]

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On Friday 30 March 2001 21:08, Charlie Brady wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, robert wrote:
> > Has anyone gotten W2K with encryption working on a pptpd setup running
> > 2.2 kernel series and/or pppd 2.3 series?
> >
> > To answer your question, the setup works fine with both windows 98 and 95
> > clients.  I don't have access to w2k or me clients to test.
> >
> > Out of curiosity, is the w2k using NAT?  According to M$: If the Virtual
> > Private Network (VPN) client is behind any network device performing
> > Network Address Translation (NAT), the L2TP session fails because
> > encrypted IPSec Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) packets become
> > corrupted.
>
> Perhaps they mean that Authentication Header (AH) packets include an IP
> component in the hash, and can't be masqueraded. AH packets are another
> type of IP packet, as are GRE (used by PPTP) and ESP. AH and ESP are part
> of the IPSec architecture, and may be used by IPSec clients. They could
> also be wrapped around GRE packets, I guess.
>
> Are you use that the M$ posting concerned PPTP VPN, and not IPSEC?
>
>   Charlie Brady                         charlieb at e-smith.com
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Probably yes.  However, since noone seems to know how to fix the problem, I 
figured I take a shot or two into the dark.  Sometimes you get lucky ;)  In 
any case, since IPSec and PPTP serve pretty much the same purpose, a solution 
to a problem with one *MIGHT* be a solution to the other.