Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 22:10:18 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sten_Daniel_S=F8rsdal?= <sten.daniel.sorsdal@wan.no> To: "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org>, "Bill Fumerola" <billf@mu.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Userland PPP/PPTP tunneling problem Message-ID: <0AF1BBDF1218F14E9B4CCE414744E70F07DE92@exchange.wanglobal.net>
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>=20 > At 01:26 PM 4/17/2003, Bill Fumerola wrote: > =20 > >> I don't understand. Why is /24 more "natural" than /16? > > > >because that address is in class C space, not class B. read rfc791. >=20 > As I understand it, that portion of RFC791 was obsolete decades ago. > (Even if it weren't, you should be able to subdivide the > address space.) >=20 > --Brett The PPTP protocol allows it (I might be wrong!), the Microsoft PPTP = client does not. It's just a minor problem with this otherwise administrativly easy way = of tunneling. Interesting really, considering Microsoft developed PPTP. If you are going to do this on a large scale, you could use Connection = Manager to build the Profile and add a small batch script to add the route as the tunnel is = being created. - Sten
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