[pptp-server] PPTPD Problems

[Cowles, Steve]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lists at earthling.2y.net [mailto:lists at earthling.2y.net]
> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 8:40 PM
> To: Charlie Brady
> Cc: poptop at kaiserdigital.com; pptp-server at lists.schulte.org
> Subject: Re: [pptp-server] PPTPD Problems
> 
> 
> >
> > You should set Localip to a single IP address, which should 
> > match the LAN address of your server. Make sure that proxyarp
> > is set in your pppd options.
>
> Uhh... No.  This is not a good idea, it will confuse many many
> applications, not to mention just about every routing daemon 
> out there, and freeswan.  I could probilly take a look into the
> code, but I'm willing to bet that for proxyarp, it only cares
> about the remote endpoint IP address being in the subnet of one
> of the network cards.
> 
> Potentially, you could set the localip to just about any ip, 
> or the same ip for all the interfaces, but things will still
> get confused, and freeswan will wine.  Its best, just so your
> system dosent get confused to use seperate addies for every
> endpoint.

Huh! Care to elaborate on which applications/routing daemons get confused. I
haven't seen any problems at my end and I run PoPToP and IPSEC configured
the way Charlie mentioned. At least I have not seen or heard of any
wining!!!

Steve Cowles