Re: M$ pptp vpn server behind Linux 2.4.18 iptables, please help

From: Matt (mattpayton_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/10/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:00:00 GMT

HisNameWasRobertPaulson wrote:
> Unfortunately I cannot use Smoothwall express, believe me, that would be
> nice. This linux box is running on SCSI disks, which SWxpress is unable to
> boot from... without alot of trouble, anyway.

Yeah, I ran into the same issue. Actually, I usually prefer to roll my
own anyway, and just use smoothwall when I need something quick + simple...
But, I was really hoping maybe there was something in there that you
could import into your existing set up, or that it would provide a clue
as to why yours wasn't working...I didn't mean to suggest you replace
your existing machine with smoothwall.

> Although there are some helpful iptables commands there - I would have to
> rescript my firewall in order to use em.
> As I am trying to troubleshoot this thing offsite first, I would rather
> avoid an iptables -N at this juncture.
> Aside from that, shouldn't I see some gre traffic using tcpdump, even if
> iptables were blocking it??
> I'm starting to think that this Actiontek dsl modem has something to do with
> it.. although I did set it up according to procedure...
>

Sorry, not really sure. i'm much more familiar with bsd style
firewalling/nat ( ipfw and ipfilter ). I can usually get what I want
done with iptables, but I do better with the bsd's... 

-- 
- Matt -

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