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.
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2008-09-25 0:51 VPN connection from Windows 2000 guest to remote server Colin Alie
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