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Date:      Wed, 2 Aug 2000 08:13:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@sunbay.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: natd: -pptpalias option is no longer in 4.x?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008020812550.33707-100000@illiad.adhesivemedia.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000802100800.A38020@sunbay.com>

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On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 04:45:44PM -0700, Philip Hallstrom wrote:
> > Hi -
> > 	I seem to remember reading something that says that in 4.x the
> > -pptpalias is no longer needed with 4.x, but I can't seem to find that
> > message, nor can I find anything that explains what changed.
> > 
> > My guess is that natd can now translate multiple MS VPN (pptp) connections
> > simulatanously?
> > 
> > Can anyone confirm this hunch?
> > 
> natd(8) uses libalias(3) library for all NAT duties, and that library was
> made to transparently support PPTP, thus -pptpalias has gone.
> 
> Unfortunately, it was later discovered that PPTP aliasing does not work when
> more than one internal client connects to the same external server at the
> same time, because PPTP requires a single TCP control connection to be
> established between any two IP addresses.  Hopefully, this will be fixed in
> the future.  This is documented in 5.0-CURRENT's libalias(3) manual page.


Is the reverse also true?  That is, can multiple external clients connect
to an internal server (either NT or the freebsd pptp port) at the same
time?

Thanks!

-philip



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