Re: Re: PPTP VPN Through SmoothWall issue

On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Dan Tesch wrote:

> Thanks to Samuel and Martin for the link, before
> I try it I have two questions:
>
> Is there a way to simply get SmoothWall to
> allow the second connection earlier?
> It seems as if I wait long enough the second
> computer could connect after the first is disconnected
> though I have not tested this yet - is SW holding on to
> some cached route info? could change a parameter
> to allow it to drop sooner without having to reboot?
> It will be almost never that I need to have concurrent
> sessions to the VPN I just happened to notice this
> during initial testing.

Not usre....I have ever only needed to have a single PPTP VPN client
behind my Smoothwall.

> Second, is there any possibility that applying this mod
> could give me problems next time I have to apply
> a "fixes update"?

Installing mods that upgrade the kernel are unlikely to cause issues when
a new update is released by the Smoothwall team....although if an official
update provides a newer kernel, you'll need to re-modify the kernel for
multiple PPTP passthrough support again.

Cheers,
Martin.
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