Re: pptp client behind firewall
But then, the question is if you realy whant to use pptp. I mean, it is
not famous for its security. I would recomend you to use l2tp insted
(l2tpd is debianized), it is a much more sucure standard then pptp.
//Joakim <friberg.joakim@home.se>
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 19:06, Kevin Buhr wrote:
> Kevin Buhr <buhr@telus.net> writes:
> >
> > Greg MATTHEWS <G.Matthews@cs.ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> > >
> > > I have a linux server setup with pptpd which appears to be working ok (port
> > > 1723 is definitely open) but i'm having trouble connecting to it from behind
> > > my firewall - a debian pentium running stable using iptables.
> >
> > You have my sympathies.
>
> Someone pointed out to me in email that there's a userspace
> "pptpproxy" daemon (not Debianized yet) that you can run on the
> firewall to tunnel PPTP connections. I've never tried it myself, but
> it would undoubtedly be much simpler to set up if it does what you
> want.
>
> --
> Kevin <buhr@telus.net>
>
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