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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(see below) 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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