From owner-freebsd-net Wed Apr 12 2:52:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [212.110.138.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A869337B8D5; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 02:52:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3/UCB) id MAA10671; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:51:31 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:51:31 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Julian Elischer Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG, archie@wistle.com, brian@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pptp over NAT? Impossible? Message-ID: <20000412125131.A8975@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: Julian Elischer , net@FreeBSD.ORG, archie@wistle.com, brian@FreeBSD.ORG References: <38F43C84.3F54BC7E@elischer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <38F43C84.3F54BC7E@elischer.org>; from Julian Elischer on Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 02:06:12AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 02:06:12AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > I've been beeting my head against a problem that I think > I suddenly understand.. > I've been trying to run a pptp session out from an address translated > network (i.e. ppp -nat). It gets so far tand then stops. > It has suddenly (after a day wasted) occured to me that > maybe the ppp negotiation is being carried by GRE and that > I'm guessing that GRE is not translatable.. (At least by > ppp -nat). (what's happenning is that the ppp negotiating packets are > getting lost in transit.) > GRE is supported in different way, see `nat pptp [addr]' in ppp(8), and PacketAliasPptp() in libalias(3). Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message