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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.
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.
-For firewalling interests. PPTP uses GRE packets 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 tunnel
to a single PPTP server when your connection is over NAT. ''Someone should make
this more correct''
+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.
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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.
