Re: New to PPTPD and had a few questions

Greg had it right.

Thank you,
Greg Borbonus
*Nix Server administrator

On 2/24/2014 11:40 AM, Greg Scott wrote:
>>> Also, I'm not sure how the system works, is it able to handle multiple users on the same ip?
>> This question doesn't really make sense. pptp connections are point-to-point IP networking
>>   connections. They are basically machine to machine networking connections. Their use is not
>> restricted to a particular user. So if you have a multiuser system running as a client, one user
>> on that system can't create a VPN connection which isn't usable by other users on the same
>> client system (or at least, not without some very fancy iptables firewalling).
> I'll bet Greg's original question really means multiple workstations behind the same **pubic** IP, right?  It seems to work now, did not with older versions years ago.  I use PPTP connections to customer sites all the time - easy to set up the clients from Windows workstations.  Some of my PPTP sites use Windows Servers to handle it, others use PopTop.  I have a few workstations here and I've done concurrent PPTP connections from more than one workstation here to the same PPTP server at a customer site.
>
> - Greg


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