What's the difference between having it "go around" and allowing it through?
Either way all services are getting into your network, right?


-----Original Message-----
From: Palmer, L. Guy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 6:37 AM
To: 'Brian C. E. Buhl'; Firewall List (E-mail)
Subject: RE: VPN through firewall?


You should NOT allow VPN thru a firewall;
preferable to go around if necessary, since
one cannot delimit ports.  By definition, VPN's
"tunnel" so you'll be allowing all services through!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian C. E. Buhl [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 1:56 AM
> To:   Firewall List (E-mail)
> Subject:      VPN through firewall?
> 
> At the risk of exposing my raw ignorance... what ports generally need to
> be
> open for VPN to pass through a firewall?
> 
> I've recently been helping a friend setup a Linux machine to act as his
> firewall.  He'd like to establish a VPN connection from his Windows 98
> machine at home to his Windows NT 4.0 machine at work.  I'm using IP
> Masquerade and IPCHAINS on the Linux machine, and In my search so far,
> I've
> found some suggestions for opening up tcp redirection for ports 1723 and
> 47.
> This hasn't produced satisfactory results, however.
> 
> In a whitepaper from Microsoft, I gleamed a little bit of something about
> opening up udp port 4701.  Has anyone else had to do this before, and am I
> leaving out any key information?
> 
> -Brian
> 
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