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Subject: RE: Userland PPP/PPTP tunneling problem
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At 12:18 PM 4/17/2003, Sten Daniel Sørsdal wrote:

>This is a known issue with the Microsoft PPTP client. It adds the natural
>netmask and not the specified one. 

I don't understand. Why is /24 more "natural" than /16?

>In case of 192.168.x.x/16 that is a 
>255.255.255.0 netmask and with for example 80.80.80.0/24 is 80.0.0.0/8.

Even more confusion. How does it come up with that?

>The only known workarounds AFAIK are requiring the client to default route
>Through the tunnel 

Which causes slowdowns and a huge extra drain on the office's
Internet feed

>- or - setup a (persistent?) route on the windows box.

I suppose we could try a script.

>Say if client gets 192.168.1.2 when client connects, you need to manually
>Enter: route -p add 192.168.0.0 mask 255.255.0.0 192.168.1.2
>On the windows client before connecting.

Is there a way to fire off a script automatically after connecting?

>Microsoft doesnt seem to be interested in fixing this problem as the problem
>persist even on Windows XP and has been known since Windows 98(??). 

Figures.

--Brett