Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:09:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Dru Nelson <dnelson@redwoodsoft.com> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: "Pitcairn, Duncan" <DuncanP@Cairnwood.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I added Microsoft VPN / PPTP for NATD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.981011220636.28652B-100000@pacman.redwoodsoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199808312154.WAA05687@awfulhak.org>
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Hi, This is late, but yes I sent the patches to one of the people on the NAT team, they should be in there. (if natd accepts a flag for pptpalias in the recent stuff, it is in there) Dru Nelson Redwood City, California On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Brian Somers wrote: > Hi, > > Have you contacted anyone yet ? Do you want to send the patches to > me ? > > Cheers. > > > Hi, > > > > I needed to VPN to work from a machine on my network so I added the code > > to the NATD today. It works great. (The natd and libalias code is very > > good, so it wasn't hard) > > > > Essentially, I added a command line paramater called 'pptpalias' with > > an argument of the ip address of the machine on the inside that is to > > be used for the pptp service (client or server). The firewall should > > then pass PPTP (IP GRE packets) traffic directly to that machine after > > translation. > > > > I read on one of the posts to this list > > that the linux version acts similarly. Apparently, there isn't a port > > number to translate (or the microsoft implmentation doesn't implement it > > correctly). So, this works for a single machine on the inside to any > > machine on the outside. This should work fine for telecommuters or a > > single server behind the firewall. > > > > I will be contacting someone who maintains the nat stuff to see if they > > want it. I'm running on > > 2.2.5-RELEASE. The changes are to the libalias files and the natd.c. > > > > I'm not on this list, so please reply to me in email directly... > > > > Take it easy, > > > > Dru Nelson > > Redwood City, California > > -- > Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org> > <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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