On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 12:06, Bryce Stenberg wrote: > >So is each workstation making a separate PPTP connection to the router? > No, the pptp tunnel is from the client's PC through to the server on the > internet, the router has to do network address (and port?) translation.
> >Or are they making a PPTP connection to the remote VPN server on the net? > Yes. Very odd - its as though the implementation of NAT isn't stateful (not sure if thats the right word?) > >If its the second choice then any DSL router should do the job. > Not so... can only establish one VPN session at a time to the same server. > (Dynalink and D-link expressly say their ADSL routers can't handle more than > one connection to the same VPN server at the same time - don't quite know > why they are so limited). http://www.trademe.co.nz/structure/listings/listings_search_results.asp?searchtype=GENERAL&searchstring=m1122 Theres two there at the moment, and none on grays.co.nz Does IPCOP do anything to help in this instance? http://www.ipcop.org/1.3.0/en/admin/html/vpnaw.html That says VPNs are possible, terminated from the IPCOP box.
