Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:43:44 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Charles Mott <cmott@scientech.com>, Ari Suutari <ari@suutari.iki.fi>, Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>, net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Improved PPTP support for libalias(3) Message-ID: <200004171543.QAA16576@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> of "Mon, 17 Apr 2000 17:05:42 %2B0300." <20000417170542.A61926@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>
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> If you mean two PCs, each with their own tunnel to the same host, this > will not work. The problem here is that we need some "tag" to use with > source and destination IP addresses, to successfully de-alias packets > coming in. For TCP and UDP packets, there are port numbers. For ICMP > echo/timestamp packets, there is an ID field. But unfortunately, there > seems to be no such "tag" with PPTP protocols. Yes, "why would anyone ever want two tunnels between two given machines ?" I never found PPTP very attractive.... :-/ > -- > Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the > ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, > ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, > +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine > > http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve > http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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