[pptp-server] PPTPD Problems

[osiris at urbanna.net]

Charlie;

Ok, I completely *mis*understood which end of the tunnel you were
discussing.  Sorry for the mistake.  I run MPPP at one of my remote
sites to channel bond three dialups and I also ran Linux EQL
( http:\\osiris.urbanna.net ) until MPPP became mature enough on that
platform to switch to it. Therefore I follow the logic of re-using the
LOCAL PPTPD SERVER's address on that end of the link and see no reason why
the implementors would not have intended it be set up the way you
describe.  That is only supposition upon my part, I have not read the RFC.
It is, however; the way that EQL and MPPP work.

Thanks for taking the time to explain it.

-m-
http://www.urbanna.net/myresume.html

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Charlie
Brady wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 osiris at urbanna.net wrote:
> 
> > Ok, I think I am following you, mind you I have never set one of these up
> > and so I am hear to learn, not to teach.
> >
> > You ARE saying the both ends of the tunnel *may* have the same address and
> > that if they don't one is actually *wasting* an address, is that correct?
> 
> No, I am not saying that. I am saying that the server end of the tunnel
> may use the same IP address as the server's ethernet interface IP address.
> 
> Justin is saying that you should not use the same IP address, but should
> use some other IP address from the same network as the server's ethernet
> interface IP address.
> 
> We all agree that the remote end of the tunnel (as seen by the server)
> should have a distinct IP address from the same network as the server's
> ethernet interface IP address.
> 
> For example,
> 
> server's ethernet IP address is 192.168.5.1
> 
> localip 192.168.5.x # where x may or may not be 1, depending on who you
>                     # choose to agree with
> remoteip 192.168.5.100-200
> 
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