Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 23:33:15 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Chris Luke <chrisy@flix.net> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Userland PPP/PPTP tunneling problem Message-ID: <200304202333.15451.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030420222403.02bde840@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030418163428.02bf6480@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030420222403.02bde840@localhost>
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On Sunday 20 April 2003 21:27, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 10:18 PM 4/20/2003, Wes Peters wrote:
> >Since by definition your PPTP client is on the same network as the
> >JetDirect, the PPTP server at the other end had better forward the
> >broadcast (and multicast) packets through the tunnel, right?
>
> I'd hope so! But since Microsoft gets the subnet mask wrong, it
> also gets the broadcast address wrong. I'm changing their
> LAN to a /24 so that their reality conforms to Microsoft's
> imagination.
That *should* work. As you note, TCP/IP networking with Microsoft is a
crapshoot; they seem to be unencumbered by understanding how things are
supposed to work.
--
Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com
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