Userland PPP/PPTP tunneling problem

Brett Glass brett at lariat.org
Sun Apr 20 21:27:54 PDT 2003


At 10:18 PM 4/20/2003, Wes Peters wrote:

>Since by definition your PPTP client is on the same network as the 
>JetDirect, the PPTP server at the other end had better forward the 
>broadcast (and multicast) packets through the tunnel, right?

I'd hope so! But since Microsoft gets the subnet mask wrong, it
also gets the broadcast address wrong. I'm changing their
LAN to a /24 so that their reality conforms to Microsoft's 
imagination.

--Brett



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