Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 22:54:49 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Dru Nelson <dnelson@redwoodsoft.com> Cc: "Pitcairn, Duncan" <DuncanP@Cairnwood.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I added Microsoft VPN / PPTP for NATD Message-ID: <199808312154.WAA05687@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Jul 1998 23:26:08 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.91.980728231609.2539a-100000@pacman.redwoodsoft.com>
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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
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