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Date:      Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:45:15 -0400
From:      "Scott Ullrich" <sullrich@gmail.com>
To:        "Rob Shepherd" <rob@techniumcast.com>
Cc:        freebsd-pf@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PPTP "fixup" for FreeBSD NAT Router
Message-ID:  <d5992baf0710310745k2d4a08c8kc2ba7af8e6bdcab7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <472871EC.9040509@techniumcast.com>
References:  <472871EC.9040509@techniumcast.com>

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On 10/31/07, Rob Shepherd <rob@techniumcast.com> wrote:
> Dear FreeBSD PF users,
>
> We have Cisco FWSM software v2.3 which doesn't pass PPTP traffic due to it not
> being able to extract the GRE session information. Grrr.... Enterprise grade my
> *rse!
>
> Nevertheless, I am intrigued to see if I can provide an alternate route for a
> customers PPTP connection through a FreeBSD router.
>
> I'll VLAN interface on to their LAN, NAT as usual to a public IP, but I would
> like to inquire (before I commence my setup) if...
>
> 1. FreeBSD NAT (PF) will pass PPTP
> 2. if (1), will it support multiple PPTP sessions (multiple clients to common
> remote VPN server)

PF does not have PPTP session handling code.   You could try using a
proxy such as frickin-pptp[1] (yes, that is really it's name) that
should keep state on the GRE traffic much better but the last time I
tried to use this daemon it had issues on FreeBSD which the author was
aware of but did not know how to fix.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/frickin/

Scott


Scott



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