NAT and PPTP

[Michael Bretterklieber]

Hi,

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Brett Glass wrote:
> inspected vary depending upon the encapsulated protocol. FreeBSD's natd
> doesn't understand that mechanism, so it doesn't know how to route GRE packets
> from the outside world back to the correct client on the private LAN.
that's not true, libalias (=natd) very well supports PPTP-nat. Maybe the
problem is in your firewall. Firewalls have to pass protocl 47 (=GRE) in
order to get PPTP to work.

bye,
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