Re: Unable to apply pptp patch

[Ramin Alidousti <ramin@cannon.eng.us.uu.net>]

On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 07:18:29PM +1000, George Vieira wrote:

> Yes limitation is to all versions and it's not a netfilter problem.. it's
> the design of PPTP which was microsoft big stuff up from memory. The design
> didn't allow multiple connections from the same source..

And it wasn't supposed to. Not being an M$ lover, but:

pptp is a standard based on Cisco's L2F and Microsoft's L2TP. Its
design is meant as an extention of ppp where the remote end of the
ppp session is not the NAS/RAS (at the edge) but on the LNS (somewhere
within the IP cloud). pptp has some very nice applications, and in a
sense it can be considered as a VPN solution like any other tunneling
solution ipip/gre/... but one has never claimed that it's a secure VPN
solution like IPsec.

So, in short, don't blame something when using the wrong technology
as a wrong solution.

Ramin

> Use a Linux to Linux VPN and you can route the whole network back and
> forth....
> 
> Also PPTP isn't the best VPN but is widely used due to the Micro$oft support
> for it..
> 
> I'd rather use IPSEC if I can only just compile my damn kernel right for
> once.. (it's been a while)..