From owner-freebsd-net Mon Apr 17 8:45: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.freebsd.org.uk [194.242.139.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C90B237BA5E for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 08:44:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (hak.nat.Awfulhak.org [172.31.0.12]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA96323; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:43:50 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA16576; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:43:44 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200004171543.QAA16576@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Julian Elischer , Brian Somers , Charles Mott , Ari Suutari , Eivind Eklund , net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Improved PPTP support for libalias(3) In-Reply-To: Message from Ruslan Ermilov of "Mon, 17 Apr 2000 17:05:42 +0300." <20000417170542.A61926@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:43:44 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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 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