Re: PPTP VPN Through SmoothWall issue

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Dan Tesch wrote:
> Hi, I have a strange one but very repeatable.
> I have set up an new VPN to a Cisco 2611 router at work.  I am using the
> built in Windows client - I have several users (Windows 2000 and XP) that
> sucessfully connect including both clients at my home behind a SmoothWall.
> I can connect with either one fine but if I go to connect a second one it
> will
> not go - I can go back to the first connected machine and disconnect but
> second
> machine still will not connect - the original machine can reconnect and
> disconnect
> again but another machine will still not connect.  If I reboot the SmoothWall
> I can then connect with the machine which could previously not - If I then
> try
> and disconnect and connect a different machine no matter which one, it will
> fail - rebooting again will allow either machine to connect.

This is a limitation of the default kernel on Smoothwall - it only allows
a single PPTP VPN connection from the green network.

Check out the homebrew forum at http://community.smoothwall.org/forum/ for
more info on some custom kernels which add support for concurrent PPTP
VPN connections.

Cheers,
Martin.
http://martybugs.net
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