Yep, PPTP is pretty old as a concept and I haven't really seen any commercial implementation of it in a loooooong time (discounting ppp for dialup ofcourse). I do believe there are still some xDSL products based on it though. The only "good" thing about it to me was the built in win client.
What etisalat connection/product did you pick up? Fortunately I get du at home and just route all my packets via openvpn to the server sitting at home whenever I'm in UAE. Dirk Tilger wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 11:47:44AM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote: > > Akshay Lamba wrote: > > > I'm not much of a user of skype but from what you tell me, an > > > alternative would be a pptp vpn connection to the server rather > than an > > > OpenVPN based connection. There's no split tunneling in pptp, > hence the > > > minute the connection is established, all packets are forced over the > > > vpn connectivity and hence the proxy connection. The downside - you > > > can't simultaneously use the browser to go directly to the net > (you can > > > however go over the vpn). > > > > Interesting. I guess pptp establishes a default route? That could be > got around pretty easily with a > > bit of routing table bashing in any case. I prefer OpenVPN mainly as > it can be squirted through > > almost any open tcp or udp port. > > PPTP is the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol. In all cases I've seen so > far it will transport PPP packets to another machine. So whatever your > pppd (that's the thing your grandfather is talking about when he speaks > of "connecting to the Internet") does will PPTP do. > > There's a bit more to PPTP, but apart from the TCP connections it uses > it is unrelated to routing. > > BTW: I just joined the club of Etisalat users and I'm wondering... how > can you live like that??? ;) > > @Brad: Do you have any way of classifying the packets coming from Skype? > I mean something like a port number or maybe the host they're coming > from? Then you could set up a second routing table with "ip rule ..." > and then mark IP packets in the mangle table to use that table. > > Dirk. > -- > The problem is that the more generic and infinitely flexible your [user > interface] is, the more similar it is to a programming language. Lisp > is not a > good user interface. (Havoc Pennington) > >
