Hi Nick, Good to actually see the technical reasons for it - I wonder why only the Nokia bothered making their router work for it. I'm very constrained in what can be used - and that is a router at most clients sites - the users have no expertise, but can manage plug their network cables here and that other one over there and turn it on. They don't want yet another computer just to get a connection.
However, we have now purchased one of the Nokia M1122's from Trademe. Thank you. Bryce Stenberg. -----Original Message----- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 24 September 2003 12:48 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT -ADSL router capable of multiple VPN connections to same s erve r? this appears to be the tecnical reason: "Q. I cannot connect from more than one computer at the same time. A. PPTP uses protocol GRE (47) for it's tunnel. When two clients behind a single NAT firewall connect to the same PPTP server, their source IP address will be rewritten by their firewall. In this case, the GRE sockets in two pptpctrl processes will be reading GRE packets from both clients. The only way to distinguish between those two clients is to filter them by destination call ID number found in the GRE header. In order for the client NAT firewall to correctly rewrite the PPTP server's replies, please check Philip Craig's netfilter pptp helper module available from the Netfilter CVS server: cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvspublic login When it asks you for a password type `cvs' cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvspublic co netfilter-extensions/helpers/pptp It will be integrated in KernelMod, but until then, you'll have to build it yourself. " from http://poptop.sourceforge.net/dox/qna.html do you have alternatives like: 1. using a linux firewall instead of a dumb nat router/modem? 2. use a better vpn like ipsec? On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:06:47 +1200 Bryce Stenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DISCLAIMER: http://www.hrnz.co.nz/eDisclaimer.htm
