Re: Linux firewall question..

["R. DuFresne" <dufresne () sysinfo com>]

I have this stored here from a recent post on the topic to another list:

From: Gary Maltzen <maltzen () mm com>
Subject: Re: PPTP behind ipchains
Cc: Firewalls List <firewalls () Lists GNAC NET>
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:55:24 -0600
To: Alexandre <aoliveira () ecommerce com br>

Kernels 2.2.x and lower need special patches to support GRE for PPTP.

See David Ranch's latest IP masquerade HOWTO

 http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dranch/LINUX/index-linux.html#ipmasq

(Be sure to read the "Resources" section)

Also check the archives at http://www.indyramp.com/masq/


Hope that helps, thanks to Gary,

Ron DuFresne


On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, delarion wrote:

> I have a Linux box running IPchains, a firewall script, uredir, and
> portfwd... I was wondering if it is possible to make it allow GRE (IP 47)
> for MS-PPTP / VPN?  Could someone point me in the right direction on where I
> would go to obtain such information?
>
>
> Thank you.
> -d
>
>
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