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Newer page: version 12 Last edited on Monday, June 7, 2004 7:44:52 pm by CraigBox
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-[Acronym] for Point -to-Point Tunneling Protocol  
+An [Acronym] for __P__oint -to-__P__oint __T__unneling __P__rotocol.  
  
-A technology for creating Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) , developed jointly by MicrosoftCorporation, U.S. Robotics, and several remote access vendor companies, known collectively as the [PPTP] Forum. A [VPN ] is a private network of computers that uses the public Internet to connect some nodes. Because the Internet is essentially an open network, the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol ( [PPTP ]) is used to ensure that messages transmitted from one VPN node to another are " secure" . With [PPTP], users can dial in to their corporate network via the Internet. 
+[PPTP] is a protocol for creating [VirtualPrivateNetwork ]s that ensures that messages transmitted from one [ VPN] node to another are secure despite being transported over an open network such as the InterNet . With [PPTP], users can dial in to their corporate network via the Internet. It was developed jointly by MicrosoftCorporation, U.S. Robotics, and several remote access vendor companies, known collectively as the [PPTP] Forum . 
  
-See PPTPServerHowTo . 
+See [PPTPServerHowto] . 
  
-If you want to support this under Linux, get [PoPToP|http://www.poptop.org/]. It starts a pppd in the correct place; you might be interested in the [MPPE] patches. 
+If you want to support this under Linux, get [PoPToP | http://www.poptop.org/]. It starts a pppd in the correct place; you might be interested in the [MPPE] patches. 
  
-PPTP is a great way to get onto the MetaNet (or indeed, any local network) if you're away from it and all you have is a Windows machine. 
+[ PPTP] is a great way to get onto the MetaNet (or indeed, any local network) if you're away from it and all you have is a Windows machine. 
  
-For firewalling interests. PPTP uses [GRE] packets (protol 47) and a [TCP] connection on port 1723 for control. Most FireWall/[NAT] implementations don't understand the GRE connection identifier and thus will only support one PPTP connection, to a single PPTP server, when your connection is over NAT. Linux 2.4 doesn't seem to have this problem . 
+For firewalling interests: [ PPTP] uses [GRE] packets (protol 47) and a [TCP] connection on port 1723 for control. Most FireWall/[NAT] implementations don't understand the [ GRE] connection identifier and thus will only support one [ PPTP] connection, to a single [ PPTP] server, when your connection is over [ NAT] . If you want to support more connections, see [PPTPConnectionTracking] for details .