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From: Pascal Hambourg <pascal.mail@plouf.fr.eu.org>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Configuring netfilter for pptp connections
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 15:06:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4476FD57.90601@plouf.fr.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <02BB8A4AC86C564C89C7F14CF98CE0C401276A@knowledge.wizdom.nu>

Hello,

Sietse van Zanen a écrit :
> For PPTP/GRE to work you need to add two rules:
> 1 for the PPTP connection (TCP Port 1723) and 1 for the GRE Protocol (IP proto 47).
>  
> If you want your machine to connect to a PPTP server on the Internet,
> allow PPTP OUTBOUND towards that server and GRE INBOUND from that server.
> If you want a client on the Internet connect to your PPTP server,
> allow both PPTP and GRE INBOUND to your server.

According to this, neither the client or the server are allowed to 
establish an outbound GRE connection. How can this work ?


      reply	other threads:[~2006-05-26 13:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-22 23:30 Configuring netfilter for pptp connections Harold Pritchett
2006-05-23  8:24 ` Rob Sterenborg
2006-05-23  8:33   ` Sietse van Zanen
2006-05-26 13:06     ` Pascal Hambourg [this message]

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