From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Colin Alie <calie@look.ca>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VPN connection from Windows 2000 guest to remote server.
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:46:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48DB4FF8.6050809@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809251051.41680.calie@look.ca>
Colin Alie wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> Is it possible to establish a PPTP connection from a guest running Windows
> 2000 Professional SP4 to a remote machine running Windows Server 2003 using
> user-mode networking?
>
> It appears to me that the problem is that GRE protocol packets are not being
> successfully transmitted. I can create a PPTP connection to the VPN server
> from the host machine and, using iptraf on the external interface, I see GRE
> packets being transmitted. However, when I initiate the connection from the
> guest machine, using iptraf, I see the initial connection using TCP to port
> 1723 on the server but no GRE protocol packets are detected.
>
>
GRE is not supported by user mode networking. Try bridging or VDE.
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-25 8:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-25 0:51 VPN connection from Windows 2000 guest to remote server Colin Alie
2008-09-25 8:46 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=48DB4FF8.6050809@redhat.com \
--to=avi@redhat.com \
--cc=calie@look.ca \
--cc=kvm@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.