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Date:      Fri, 12 Oct 2001 01:52:04 -0400
From:      "alexus" <ml@db.nexgen.com>
To:        <cjclark@alum.mit.edu>
Cc:        "Julian Morgan" <jmorgan@mitchells.com.au>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: VPN
Message-ID:  <000f01c152e2$0585b5e0$0100a8c0@alexus>
References:  <4A256AE3.000E271F.00@mail.mitchells.com.au> <20011011213206.E293@blossom.cjclark.org> <002101c152dd$1128c860$0100a8c0@alexus> <20011011223424.F293@blossom.cjclark.org>

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i'm not very good at VPNs so let me just say what i did

i added another connection as VPN using wizard, now due to this computer is
behind firewall i wanted to find out which ports do i need to forward
thats basically my question

i assume this is pptp protocol too ;-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To: "alexus" <ml@db.nexgen.com>
Cc: "Julian Morgan" <jmorgan@mitchells.com.au>;
<freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 1:34 AM
Subject: Re: VPN


> On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 01:16:36AM -0400, alexus wrote:
> > eh, i still haven't found an answer for my question
>
> You need to answer mine below before we can even start.
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
> > To: "Julian Morgan" <jmorgan@mitchells.com.au>
> > Cc: "alexus" <ml@db.nexgen.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 12:32 AM
> > Subject: Re: VPN
> >
> >
> > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 12:34:31PM +1000, Julian Morgan wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I would leave the 'ip' statement out of that line
> > >
> > > I believe he was indicating he had an IP address in that space.
> > >
> > > >  make sure that you have the additional flags file stated in rc.conf
> > > >      eg   natd_flags="-f /etc/natd.cf"
> > > > and in my natd.cf I have
> > > >      redirect_port tcp 192.168.120.30:443 443
> > > >      redirect_port tcp 192.168.120.30:80 80
> > > >      unregistered_only yes
> > > >      same_ports yes
> > > >
> > > > NOTE THERE IS NO MENTION OF 'tcp'
> > >
> > > You used it twice.
> > >
> > > > BECAUSE THAT GOES WITHOUT SAYING IF YOUR
> > > > PROTOCOL IS UDP, eg udp being a subset of TCP
> > >
> > > UDP and TCP are two completely separate transport layer protocols.
> > >
> > > To the original poster, might you be blocking something in your
> > > firewall rules? And you never said what kind of VPN protocol you are
> > > trying to use. I assume PPTP.
> --
> Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
>                                    |     cjclark@jhu.edu
> http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org
>


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