From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 31 13:32:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xmail.telescan.com (xmail.telescan.com [216.206.68.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33D2414C05 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 13:32:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from burke@gallagher.chicago.il.us) Received: from cog3 ([204.251.138.64]) by xmail.telescan.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-60334U100L100S0V35) with SMTP id com; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 15:31:44 -0600 Message-ID: <002c01bf6c31$8e1102a0$408afbcc@Telescan.com> Reply-To: "Burke Gallagher" From: "Burke Gallagher" To: , References: <3895eb17.45dc.0@montenegro.com> Subject: Re: Problems with NT VPN via FreeBSD gateway Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 15:24:28 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG your problem is with NATD, VPN uses GRE protocol to encaspulate packets (diffrent from tcp and udp). the answer is to use the pptpalias switch/command on your NATD flags line or in your natd.conf file. check the natd man page for the precise syntax. burke ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 2:05 PM Subject: Problems with NT VPN via FreeBSD gateway > I hate to ask this question, but in order to telecommute I need to establish > VPN connection between my NT (partition) at home and my company's NT server. > > > I have: > 1) FreeBSD gateway at home with IPFW (open policy) and NATD aliasing, with the > cable modem connection. > 2) Workstation with NT partition and NT native VPN software > > My work has: > 1) NT Server with NT native VPN software > > Problem: > My VPN connection fails to establish when I am going through my gateway/cable > modem. I get the Login/Password screen coming from the work machine, but my > home computer just keeps hanging there. If I try the same thing through the > dialup (bypassing my FreeBSD gateway) everything works perfect, and I connect > to my company's VPN. > > Question: > Is there a way to set up MS. VPN via FreeBSD gateway? > > I was researching the mailing list resources, and went down the path of having > ssh redirect packets, but I was not able to get that working. Any resources, > ideas or pointers will be appreciated. search the freebsd questions mailling list http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists for PPTP and NATD > > Alex > ---------------------------------------- > Alex Obradovic > > http://darkdays.metalnow.com > http://www.montenegro.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message