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I am configuring a router for a friend of mine. The last few weeks I've
been trying to make it work with Redhat 9, but although I've quite some
experience with iptables, I couldn't make it work. I think the reason is that he
has a PPTP-connection to his ISP, and the combination Redhat 9 - PPTP - NAT
(Network Address Translation) causes some problems.
I've consulted e few goeroes and they assured me that the the way I did it
should work, but it didn't.
After 3 weeks I got so frustrated that I threw all the Redhat-stuff I could
find int the trash can and now I'm trying it again with Debian.
What I want is really quite simple: All ports have to be closed, except
port 22 (SSH) for maintenance and redirect port 80 to a webserver that's behind
the Linux-router.
Now here's my question:
There are 2 ways I could make a PPTP-connection:
1. Use a standard script available from www.adsl4linux.nl. With that script
everybody can make a PPTP-connection within 2 minutes. I've done it several
times and it works perfect.
2. Load the pptp-linux 1.3.1-1 module and configure it myself.
The problem is that my friend lives in Holland and I live in Belgium. In
Belgium we have PPPoE, in Holland PPTP, so I can't test anything from here. I
would really like it if it should work at once.
What do you suggest: Should I choose for option 1, the script I've been
using the last 3 weeks or should I load the pptp-linux module. In that case,
where can I find some documentation about configuring it, I've been searching on
the several sites but I couldn't find anything.
Thanks in advance.
Kind regards,
Joachim
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