Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 10:08:00 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@sunbay.com> To: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: natd: -pptpalias option is no longer in 4.x? Message-ID: <20000802100800.A38020@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008011638090.30317-100000@illiad.adhesivemedia.com>; from philip@adhesivemedia.com on Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 04:45:44PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008011638090.30317-100000@illiad.adhesivemedia.com>
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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. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 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-questions" in the body of the message
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