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Date:      Thu, 19 Mar 1998 16:40:05 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund)
Cc:        jeff@netronix.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, grog@lemis.com
Subject:   Re: Natd Support for Microsoft PPTP / VPN using protocol 47
Message-ID:  <199803200040.QAA06132@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980319012952.45187@follo.net> from Eivind Eklund at "Mar 19, 98 01:29:52 am"

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Eivind Eklund writes:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 04:26:55PM +0000, Jeff Buseman wrote:
> >    Finally, my question(s) is this:  Is there some way to make NATd do
> > the translation on this protocol, or does it only handle TCP and UDP
> > traffic?
> 
> It only handle TCP and UDP traffic.  The only way to get it to handle
> something else is by asking Charles or me to make libalias do so, preferably
> with pointer to suitable documentation.  I might find time to handle this
> fairly quickly if you come up with docs.

This would be pretty easy.

Proto 47 is GRE [1, 2] and is used by PPTP [3]. Each packet has a
two byte "Call ID" parameter you could use to multiplex the translated
packets.

-Archie

References:

  [1] http://www.es.net/pub/rfcs/rfc1701.txt
  [2] http://www.es.net/pub/rfcs/rfc1702.txt
  [3] ftp://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pppext-pptp-02.txt

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