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From: Jordan Russell <jr-list-2005@quo.to>
Subject: Re: PPTP connection attempts fail with ip_nat_pptp loaded
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 20:45:47 -0600
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Jordan Russell wrote:
> When ip_nat_pptp is loaded (via "modprobe ip_nat_pptp"), about 9 out of
> every 10 PPTP connection attempts hang and eventually time out.
> 
> I'm connecting from a Windows 2000 machine through a Linux 2.6.14
> NAT/firewall box to a Poptop PPTP server on the Internet.

Follow-up:

Problem solved. It turns out a patch is needed if you have Windows PPTP
clients:

https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=397

Thanks to Philip for bringing this to my attention.

-- 
Jordan Russell