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Date:      Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:36:59 -0400
From:      "Chris Buechler" <cbuechler@gmail.com>
To:        "Ansar Mohammed" <ansarm@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-pf@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GRE Limitation
Message-ID:  <d64aa1760807172036u7f41fc7ctcc8563dd75372211@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <047001c8e87d$8078b710$816a2530$@com>
References:  <047001c8e87d$8078b710$816a2530$@com>

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On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Ansar Mohammed <ansarm@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
> I just read the following on the pfsense website:
>
> "PPTP and GRE Limitation - The state tracking code in pf for the GRE
> protocol can only track a single session per public IP per external server.
> This means if you use PPTP VPN connections, only one internal machine can
> connect simultaneously to a PPTP server on the Internet. A thousand machines
> can connect simultaneously to a thousand different PPTP servers, but only
> one simultaneously to a single server. The only available work around is to
> use multiple public IPs on your firewall, one per client, or to use multiple
> public IPs on the external PPTP server. This is not a problem with other
> types of VPN connections."
>
> Is this also true for stock FreeBSD with PF or just a pfsense issue?
>

That's true with every OS that runs pf, and anything based on any of
those (including pfSense).

Chris



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