Re: vpn tunnels shares one IP
"Brian Bruns" <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:29:22 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.security.vpn |
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| Message-ID | <003b01c454aa$a06ba840$b060fa04@intrepid> |
On Thursday, June 17, 2004 10:25 AM [EDT], Qian, Roger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Can a VPN host accept two or more remote clients connection which > shares one public IP simultaneously? > Thanks, > Roger It depends on the type of VPN you are using. In my experience with a PPTP VPN server, with more then one client behind a NAT gateway (sharing the same IP), it can not properly distinguish between traffic from each client, and will fail. However, there is supposedly a way to make this work, and requires a change on the server end, on the client's end, and possibly as well the NAT gateway. I have not seen the 'fix' which makes it work personally, so I can't vouch as to how hard it is to setup or if it fully works. -- Brian Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group Open Solutions For A Closed World / Anti-Spam Resources http://www.sosdg.org The Abusive Hosts Blocking List http://www.ahbl.org