Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 08:49:04 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Dru Nelson <dnelson@redwoodsoft.com> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, "Pitcairn, Duncan" <DuncanP@Cairnwood.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I added Microsoft VPN / PPTP for NATD Message-ID: <199810120749.IAA05945@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:09:17 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.91.981011220636.28652B-100000@pacman.redwoodsoft.com>
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I don't think it is there. Who did you send the patch to ? I can
chase them up and commit it myself.
Cheers.
> Hi, This is late, but yes I sent the patches to one of the people
> on the NAT team, they should be in there. (if natd accepts a flag
> for pptpalias in the recent stuff, it is in there)
>
> Dru Nelson
> Redwood City, California
>
> On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Brian Somers wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Have you contacted anyone yet ? Do you want to send the patches to
> > me ?
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I needed to VPN to work from a machine on my network so I added the code
> > > to the NATD today. It works great. (The natd and libalias code is very
> > > good, so it wasn't hard)
> > >
> > > Essentially, I added a command line paramater called 'pptpalias' with
> > > an argument of the ip address of the machine on the inside that is to
> > > be used for the pptp service (client or server). The firewall should
> > > then pass PPTP (IP GRE packets) traffic directly to that machine after
> > > translation.
> > >
> > > I read on one of the posts to this list
> > > that the linux version acts similarly. Apparently, there isn't a port
> > > number to translate (or the microsoft implmentation doesn't implement it
> > > correctly). So, this works for a single machine on the inside to any
> > > machine on the outside. This should work fine for telecommuters or a
> > > single server behind the firewall.
> > >
> > > I will be contacting someone who maintains the nat stuff to see if they
> > > want it. I'm running on
> > > 2.2.5-RELEASE. The changes are to the libalias files and the natd.c.
> > >
> > > I'm not on this list, so please reply to me in email directly...
> > >
> > > Take it easy,
> > >
> > > Dru Nelson
> > > Redwood City, California
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