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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: Improved PPTP support for libalias(3)
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 from Charles Mott at "Jul 27, 2000 09:15:56 pm"
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Charles Mott writes:
> Is this a limitation of a specific server implementation, or
> a limitation of the PPTP standard?

It's simply a limitation in our address translation module for PPTP. 
There's nothing implied wrong with the standard itself or the server
implementation.

This limitation could be eliminated with more coding, but it's
somewhat ugly (you have to make two TCP streams appear as one).

-Archie

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