Re: Big PPTP server

2006-08-25 Thread Brett Glass
At 10:16 AM 8/25/2006, Archie Cobbs wrote: >The ng_pptpgre node handles the "data packet" level of PPTP, but most >of the complexity in PPTP is in the higher level protocol for setup >and teardown. You'd have to get that in there somehow. I suppose that the call control facility could be impleme

Re: Big PPTP server

2006-08-25 Thread Archie Cobbs
Brett Glass wrote: Just wanted to ask about the feasibility of the following idea. Would it be possible to use the Netgraph PPTP node, in combination with Brian Somers' userland PPP implementation, to make a PPTP server? It would work similarly to FreeBSD's "pppoed", whi

Re: Big PPTP server

2006-08-25 Thread Brett Glass
Archie, Julian: Just wanted to ask about the feasibility of the following idea. Would it be possible to use the Netgraph PPTP node, in combination with Brian Somers' userland PPP implementation, to make a PPTP server? It would work similarly to FreeBSD's "pppoed", whic

Re: Big PPTP server

2006-08-15 Thread Archie Cobbs
Brett Glass wrote: >> It was not originally intended as a large scale server. It could be >> adapted to that fairly easily but no one has done so yet. > > I might be motivated to try; however, I would need to understand more about its architecture (and about Netgraph, whose mysteries I haven't p

Re: Big PPTP server

2006-08-14 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:32:22 -0600 Brett Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This company hasn't been using a RADIUS server. They have an Active > Directory server (yuck!), but I don't know if it would be useful > for this purpose. As much as it's a MS solution, why reinvent the wheel / kill you

Re: Big PPTP server

2006-08-13 Thread Brett Glass
At 10:22 AM 8/13/2006, Archie Cobbs wrote: That's more a question for archie as he wrote it, bit it was written to be a server on small appliance. Some people have been working on imporving mpd but I don't know much about it. It was not originally intended as a large scale server. It could b

Re: Big PPTP server

2006-08-13 Thread Archie Cobbs
Julian Elischer wrote: Julian, as I recall you were one of the original employees of Whistle Communications, correct? Perhaps you can explain this: Why does mpd require all of those link configurations? Was mpd originally intended to be used as a client only? I'm struggling here because I can't

Re: Big PPTP server

2006-08-11 Thread Julian Elischer
Brett Glass wrote: At 09:39 PM 8/10/2006, Julian Elischer wrote: mpd does all the netgraph manipulation itself. Julian, as I recall you were one of the original employees of Whistle Communications, correct? Perhaps you can explain this: Why does mpd require all of those link configuration

Re: Big PPTP server

2006-08-10 Thread Uwe Laverenz
Hi Brett, On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 08:43:28PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > flail around experimenting? If I can't use mpd and PoPToP isn't > working, what other options are there for a good PPTP server? It's not PPTP, but maybe OpenVPN is an otion for you: /usr/p

Re: Big PPTP server

2006-08-10 Thread Brett Glass
At 09:39 PM 8/10/2006, Julian Elischer wrote: mpd does all the netgraph manipulation itself. Julian, as I recall you were one of the original employees of Whistle Communications, correct? Perhaps you can explain this: Why does mpd require all of those link configurations? Was mpd originally

Re: Big PPTP server

2006-08-10 Thread Julian Elischer
Brett Glass wrote: At 09:00 PM 8/10/2006, Ganbold wrote: It will be much easier if you can write some script to generate mpd config files. I'm generating config files such way for PPPoE. Is there a way to avoid having to generate them at all? It seems to me that it would be very easy for m

Re: Big PPTP server

2006-08-10 Thread Brett Glass
At 09:00 PM 8/10/2006, Ganbold wrote: It will be much easier if you can write some script to generate mpd config files. I'm generating config files such way for PPPoE. Is there a way to avoid having to generate them at all? It seems to me that it would be very easy for mpd to create netgraph

Re: Big PPTP server

2006-08-10 Thread Ganbold
Brett Glass wrote: I've been asked to work on a PPTP server for a large company which has up to 100 users tunneling in at once. They currently have a FreeBSD machine set up to use FreeBSD's userland PPP together with the PoPToP pptp daemon. (They have a hacked version of PoPToP wh

Big PPTP server

2006-08-10 Thread Brett Glass
I've been asked to work on a PPTP server for a large company which has up to 100 users tunneling in at once. They currently have a FreeBSD machine set up to use FreeBSD's userland PPP together with the PoPToP pptp daemon. (They have a hacked version of PoPToP which allows different

Re: MPD 3.13 PPTP server MTU problems & questions

2003-07-18 Thread Yann Nottara
Andy Gilligan wrote: - Original Message - From: "Yann Nottara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 6:53 PM Subject: Re: MPD 3.13 PPTP server MTU problems & questions but now, what do you think of this ? ng0: flags=88d1 m

Re: MPD 3.13 PPTP server MTU problems & questions

2003-07-17 Thread Archie Cobbs
Yann Nottara wrote: > but now, what do you think of this ? > > ng0: flags=88d1 mtu 1500 > inet6 fe80::2b0:d0ff:fee1:4874%ng0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7 > inet 192.168.0.10 --> 192.168.0.200 netmask 0x > > and here's the part from my mpd.conf that's related to this connecti

Re: MPD 3.13 PPTP server MTU problems & questions

2003-07-17 Thread Andy Gilligan
- Original Message - From: "Yann Nottara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 6:53 PM Subject: Re: MPD 3.13 PPTP server MTU problems & questions > but now, what do you think of this ? > > ng0: flags=88d1

Re: MPD 3.13 PPTP server MTU problems & questions

2003-07-17 Thread Yann Nottara
Andy Gilligan wrote: - Original Message - From: "Yann Nottara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Zs you can see in the following real world example, ng0 (which IS up) MTU stays at 1500 although it's configured to be at 1460 in the mpd.conf configuration file : ng0: flags=8890 mtu 1500 inet6 f

Re: MPD 3.13 PPTP server MTU problems & questions

2003-07-17 Thread Andy Gilligan
- Original Message - From: "Yann Nottara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 5:41 PM Subject: Re: MPD 3.13 PPTP server MTU problems & questions > Zs you can see in the following real world example, ng0 (which IS up)

Re: MPD 3.13 PPTP server MTU problems & questions

2003-07-17 Thread Yann Nottara
Nikolai SAOUKH wrote: | As you'll see in the logs below and from ifconfig output, altough the | ngX interfaces MTU is set to 1460 with "set link mtu 1460", it stays at | 1500. Any idea why ? The asked mtu size will be available (set) only when interface is in UP state. When the ngX is in down s

Re: MPD 3.13 PPTP server MTU problems & questions

2003-07-16 Thread Nikolai SAOUKH
| As you'll see in the logs below and from ifconfig output, altough the | ngX interfaces MTU is set to 1460 with "set link mtu 1460", it stays at | 1500. Any idea why ? The asked mtu size will be available (set) only when interface is in UP state. When the ngX is in down state it has default va

MPD 3.13 PPTP server MTU problems & questions

2003-07-16 Thread Yann Nottara
pd: [pptp0] exec: command returned 256 Jul 16 18:52:13 bull mpd: [pptp0] IFACE: Up event Jul 16 18:52:13 bull mpd: [pptp0] rec'd unexpected protocol IP on link -1 My other problem (maybe related to the previous one ?) is SMB browsing : PPTP clients connected through the VPN can see but

Re: mpd pptp server questions

2002-12-20 Thread Yann Nottara
Olivier Cherrier wrote: I'm using MPD 3.10 on a FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0: Sat Apr 13 19:16:07 CEST Isn'it a problem to run a recent MPD application on an 'old' 4.4 system? I'd agree with you but in my case, apart from what seems to be a few unnecessary verbosity,

Re: mpd pptp server questions

2002-12-20 Thread Yann Nottara
Archie Cobbs wrote: Yann Nottara wrote: [...] So, my questions regarding the logs are : 1) What does "exec: command returned 256" means ? The "route add" command failed for some reason. Does the route already exist? So it seems, I'll have to check. 2) What "does rec'd unexpected protocol

RE: mpd pptp server questions

2002-12-19 Thread Julian Elischer
there were some bugfixes to the netgraph modules since 4.4 On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Olivier Cherrier wrote: > > I'm using MPD 3.10 on a FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0: Sat Apr 13 > > 19:16:07 CEST > > Isn'it a problem to run a recent MPD application on > an 'old' 4.4 system? > > Thanks. > oc > > To Uns

RE: mpd pptp server questions

2002-12-19 Thread Olivier Cherrier
> I'm using MPD 3.10 on a FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0: Sat Apr 13 > 19:16:07 CEST Isn'it a problem to run a recent MPD application on an 'old' 4.4 system? Thanks. oc To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: mpd pptp server questions

2002-12-17 Thread Archie Cobbs
Yann Nottara wrote: > Dec 17 13:59:02 bull mpd: 192.168.0.10 -> 192.168.0.202 > Dec 17 13:59:02 bull mpd: [pptp2] IFACE: Up event > Dec 17 13:59:02 bull mpd: [pptp2] exec: /sbin/ifconfig ng0 192.168.0.10 > 192.168.0.202 netmask 0x -link0 > Dec 17 13:59:02 bull mpd: [pptp2] exec: /usr/sbi

mpd pptp server questions

2002-12-17 Thread Yann Nottara
Hi ! I'm using MPD 3.10 on a FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0: Sat Apr 13 19:16:07 CEST 2002 machine. I've setup a PPTP server allowing remote access to the local network for the Win2k integrated PPTP client. Works OK so far but I got some messages in my logs that I don't understand. I ha

Re: mpd PPTP server; client gateway

2002-10-28 Thread Carlos Carnero
Hi, --- Archie Cobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carlos Carnero writes: > > I've succesfully configured mpd as PPTP server for > > VPNs. But I have one stumbling block: when I > > connect to the server from a Windows XP client, > > the new connection gets a

Re: mpd PPTP server; client gateway

2002-10-21 Thread Archie Cobbs
Carlos Carnero writes: > I've succesfully configured mpd as PPTP server for > VPNs. But I have one stumbling block: when I connect > to the server from a Windows XP client, the new > connection gets assigned the same IP address as the > default gateway. For instance: &g

mpd PPTP server; client gateway

2002-10-18 Thread Carlos Carnero
Hi, I've succesfully configured mpd as PPTP server for VPNs. But I have one stumbling block: when I connect to the server from a Windows XP client, the new connection gets assigned the same IP address as the default gateway. For instance: Client IP address: 192.168.250.240 Client ne

Re: MPD as a PPTP server

2002-09-19 Thread Archie Cobbs
Elliott Perrin writes: > I am not currently on freebsd-net so if you could cc me in replies it would be > appreciated. > > I have a FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE running mpd 3.9 serving as a PPTP server. > > I have setup PPTP boxes using MPD before but have run into a problem this ti

MPD as a PPTP server

2002-09-18 Thread Elliott Perrin
I am not currently on freebsd-net so if you could cc me in replies it would be appreciated. I have a FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE running mpd 3.9 serving as a PPTP server. I have setup PPTP boxes using MPD before but have run into a problem this time. In the past I would use set ipcp ranges 1.2.3.4

Re: mpd netgraph pptp server

2002-07-02 Thread Peter J. Blok
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 21:14, Archie Cobbs wrote: > Peter J. Blok writes: > > I have a gateway/firewall which is the spider in the web for different IP > > segments. From two segments 192.168.2.0/24 and 192.168.10.0/24 I am > > trying to setup PPTP tunnels. I have two different pptp sections (ppt

Re: problems with mpd as a pptp server

2002-07-02 Thread Archie Cobbs
Anthony Volodkin writes: > - Now that perfectly works, (proxy-arp too, is very impressive) I am > trying to figure out how to forward broadcast packets from ng0 to fxp0 > and vice-versa. Something tells me since this is an interface created > by netgraph, it should be possible. I tried the et

Re: mpd netgraph pptp server

2002-07-02 Thread Archie Cobbs
Peter J. Blok writes: > I have a gateway/firewall which is the spider in the web for different IP > segments. From two segments 192.168.2.0/24 and 192.168.10.0/24 I am trying to > setup PPTP tunnels. I have two different pptp sections (pptp1 and pptp2) in > both mpd.conf and mpd.links with uniq

mpd netgraph pptp server

2002-07-01 Thread Peter J. Blok
Hi, I have a gateway/firewall which is the spider in the web for different IP segments. From two segments 192.168.2.0/24 and 192.168.10.0/24 I am trying to setup PPTP tunnels. I have two different pptp sections (pptp1 and pptp2) in both mpd.conf and mpd.links with unique names. Each pptp secti

Re: problems with mpd as a pptp server

2002-06-30 Thread Anthony Volodkin
ow why Windows 98 doesn't work with MPD? I >haven't heard 1 successful story with FBSD -> Win98 (i can get FBSD -> >Win2K to work with no problems using CHAP and PAP). Any insight would >be great. > >JE> On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Anthony Volodkin wrote: > > >

Re: problems with mpd as a pptp server

2002-06-30 Thread srgtd
. Any insight would be great. JE> On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Anthony Volodkin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Julian Elischer suggested that I use mpd to setup a pptp link instead of >> PoPtoP (thank you) >> I am now having problems with mpd. I configured it as a pptp server >&

Re: problems with mpd as a pptp server

2002-06-29 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Anthony Volodkin wrote: > Hi, > > Julian Elischer suggested that I use mpd to setup a pptp link instead of > PoPtoP (thank you) > I am now having problems with mpd. I configured it as a pptp server > accoring to instructions, but it never re

problems with mpd as a pptp server

2002-06-29 Thread Anthony Volodkin
Hi, Julian Elischer suggested that I use mpd to setup a pptp link instead of PoPtoP (thank you) I am now having problems with mpd. I configured it as a pptp server accoring to instructions, but it never responds to requests. Furthermore, I doubt it even listens for them, because it does not

Re: mpd: pptp server

2002-05-24 Thread Mike A. Oligny
GM GG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Can you suggest a config for mpd used like a > pptp client ? It seems to me there is not such > config sample in the provided mpd.conf default. Sure, I'll include some that I've used successfully - client configs are old and haven't been tested recently - they

mpd: pptp server

2002-05-24 Thread Gianmarco Giovannelli
Hi, I am trying to implement a small vpn solutions with mpd as pptp server and pptpclient from home to office. I have setup also in other implementations and it works fine, but I need for this situations pptp server... The office is connected directly to the net, while at home I am using user

mpd: pptp server

2002-05-24 Thread Gianmarco Giovannelli
Hi, I am trying to implement a small vpn solutions with mpd as pptp server and pptpclient from home to office. I have setup also in other implementations and it works fine, but I need for this situations pptp server... The office is connected directly to the net, while at home I am using user

Re: mpd: pptp server

2002-05-24 Thread GM GG
--- "Mike A. Oligny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > GM GG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am trying to implement a small vpn solutions > with > > mpd as pptp server and pptpclient from home to > office. > > Just a thought - I ha

Re: mpd: pptp server

2002-05-24 Thread Mike A. Oligny
GM GG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to implement a small vpn solutions with > mpd as pptp server and pptpclient from home to office. Just a thought - I have had much better luck using MPD for both sides of the pptp equation. pptpclient seemed quite unstable the last

mpd: pptp server

2002-05-24 Thread GM GG
Hi, I am trying to implement a small vpn solutions with mpd as pptp server and pptpclient from home to office. I have setup also in other implementations and it works fine, but I need for this situations pptp server... The office is connected directly to the net, while at home I am using user ppp

Re: Multiple connections to MPD-netgraph as PPTP server

2002-03-04 Thread Archie Cobbs
Julian Elischer writes: > > I solved my own problem... it turns out that my naming conventions caused > > an issue when MPD labelled the PPP node. It truncated the bundle names at > > 8 characters, and since mine were 8 characters plus a number following the > > truncated names for all the links

Re: Multiple connections to MPD-netgraph as PPTP server

2002-03-04 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Ryan Morris wrote: > I solved my own problem... it turns out that my naming conventions caused > an issue when MPD labelled the PPP node. It truncated the bundle names at > 8 characters, and since mine were 8 characters plus a number following the > truncated names for all

Re: Multiple connections to MPD-netgraph as PPTP server

2002-03-04 Thread Ryan Morris
set pptp self 63.x.x.x > set pptp enable incoming > set pptp disable originate > > The 63.x.x.x address is the public external address, and 192.168.100.1 > is my server VPN endpoint address as well as my internal IP address on > my LAN. > > Joe > > >

Re: Multiple connections to MPD-netgraph as PPTP server

2002-03-02 Thread Julian Elischer
Joe Clarke wrote: > > In my setup the pptp self address is always the same, but it isn't the > same address I use as the server VPN endpoint address. just a hint To increase readability try do your pptp rules as so: > > load pptpuser1 > load pptpuser2 > >pptp_common_settings: > set if

Re: Multiple connections to MPD-netgraph as PPTP server

2002-03-02 Thread Joe Clarke
the public external address, and 192.168.100.1 is my server VPN endpoint address as well as my internal IP address on my LAN. Joe > > On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Ryan Morris wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I recently (successfully) configured MPD-netgraph as a pptp server on m

Re: Multiple connections to MPD-netgraph as PPTP server

2002-03-02 Thread Michele Possamai
What if you change the self ipaddress in mpd.links? they are the same in both connections On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Ryan Morris wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I recently (successfully) configured MPD-netgraph as a pptp server on my > FreeBSD machine. It works great... for one user. When

Re: Multiple connections to MPD-netgraph as PPTP server

2002-03-01 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Ryan Morris wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I recently (successfully) configured MPD-netgraph as a pptp server on my > FreeBSD machine. It works great... for one user. When I change my > configuration to support multiple PPTP bundles/links I get the followi

Multiple connections to MPD-netgraph as PPTP server

2002-03-01 Thread Ryan Morris
Hello everyone, I recently (successfully) configured MPD-netgraph as a pptp server on my FreeBSD machine. It works great... for one user. When I change my configuration to support multiple PPTP bundles/links I get the following error when starting mpd: bsd# mpd Multi-link PPP for FreeBSD, by

Re: MPD-NETGRAPH PPTP server with IPX?

2001-11-17 Thread Archie Cobbs
Dan Larsson writes: > I've got a FreeBSD-4.4 STABLE box running mpd-netgraph > as a PPTP server, which works just fine. > > Is it by any chance possible to support IPX (the Novell > protocol) with MPD in this configuration? Mpd does not support IPX currently, and I don'

MPD-NETGRAPH PPTP server with IPX?

2001-11-15 Thread Dan Larsson
I've got a FreeBSD-4.4 STABLE box running mpd-netgraph as a PPTP server, which works just fine. Is it by any chance possible to support IPX (the Novell protocol) with MPD in this configuration? Pointers most welcome. Regards +-- Dan Larsson -+- Tyfon Svenska AB -+- DL1999-RIPE 2AA5

Re: mpd-netgraph as pptp server

2001-06-02 Thread Archie Cobbs
w 100 simultaneous client connecting to my pptp server, > do i have to repeat the entry above 100 times, increasing pptp0 and ng0 > values respectively? this would result in a very big mpd.conf and mpd.links > file. Unfortunately, yes.. > is there any other simple way that will keep t

mpd-netgraph as pptp server

2001-05-30 Thread nuzrin
set pptp self xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx set pptp enable incoming set pptp disable originate and if i want to allow 100 simultaneous client connecting to my pptp server, do i have to repeat the entry above 100 times, increasing pptp0 and ng0 values respectively? this would result in a

Re: pptp server

2001-02-11 Thread Archie Cobbs
Olivier Cherrier writes: > >It should work with all Windows clients as long as they don't > >require MS-CHAP version 2 authentication. > > Yes, it works. > It works fine. > But there is no encryption of data between MPD and windows clients... When I > do some work in a such connection, I can read

RE: pptp server

2001-02-08 Thread Olivier Cherrier
>It should work with all Windows clients as long as they don't >require MS-CHAP version 2 authentication. > Yes, it works. It works fine. But there is no encryption of data between MPD and windows clients... When I do some work in a such connection, I can read data with a tcpdump ... Nevertheles

Re: pptp server

2001-02-08 Thread Archie Cobbs
Julian Elischer writes: > > Olivier Cherrier writes: > > > Ho, I think that I found my problem ... maybe > > > In fact, the "mppe encryption" is included in the MS-Chap protocol, isn't it > > > > MPPE encryption piggybacks on MPPC compression. You can have > > either or both of 'E' and/or 'C'. Mp

Re: pptp server

2001-02-08 Thread Julian Elischer
Archie Cobbs wrote: > > Olivier Cherrier writes: > > Ho, I think that I found my problem ... maybe > > In fact, the "mppe encryption" is included in the MS-Chap protocol, isn't it > > MPPE encryption piggybacks on MPPC compression. You can have > either or both of 'E' and/or 'C'. Mpd only suppor

Re: pptp server

2001-02-07 Thread Archie Cobbs
Olivier Cherrier writes: > Ho, I think that I found my problem ... maybe > In fact, the "mppe encryption" is included in the MS-Chap protocol, isn't it MPPE encryption piggybacks on MPPC compression. You can have either or both of 'E' and/or 'C'. Mpd only supports 'E' because 'C' requires proprie

RE: pptp server

2001-02-07 Thread Olivier Cherrier
p protocol, isn't it ? The encryption, as mpd 3.2 calls it, isn't supported by windows clients. I tcpdumped a session between my pptp server and a windows client : I got : << ... 22:14:37.382601 193.190.156.147 > mirador.cediti.be: gre-proto-0x880B (gre encap) 22:14:37.383061 m

RE: pptp server

2001-02-07 Thread Olivier Cherrier
> Has someone succeed in using mpd as pptp server with windows >clients ? > >yes many many have.. > >I have done it but not here. It was relatively easy.. >wait for archie to come on line (He's in California) >to help find your problem.. > Yes, I've alr

Re: pptp server

2001-02-07 Thread Julian Elischer
Olivier Cherrier wrote: > > Hi. > > I would like to install a pptp server on a FreeBox 4.2 firewall. > I have to allow remote connections from windows clients (Win 98 - 2k) to > this firewall. This firewall runs IPF and IPNat. > > I tried mpd 3.2 > (ftp://ftp.freeb

pptp server

2001-02-07 Thread Olivier Cherrier
Hi. I would like to install a pptp server on a FreeBox 4.2 firewall. I have to allow remote connections from windows clients (Win 98 - 2k) to this firewall. This firewall runs IPF and IPNat. I tried mpd 3.2 (ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/net/mpd-netgraph/ pkg-descr