I have a remote user who needs to connect to our corporate LAN over his
Internet connection.  The corporate end of the connection has already been
verified by another user in a different remote office.  Thus far the new
user has been unable to connect, and as far as I can tell none of his
packets reach my server.  His office has Internet connectivity provided by a
third party, so I asked him to verify with them that they will allow
outbound PPTP connections.  Their response was that they do not for security
reasons.  To enable this for his office they want to assign a static IP
address (more $ per month) and charge a setup fee (again, more $).  I have
repeatedly stated that he needs to establish an outbound connection, but
they insist that they must open inbound ports (hence the static IP).  I'm no
firewall expert, nor a PPTP expert, but I'm just not buying their line.  Any
comments on this topic are appreciated.

Michael Ellis



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