As some of you have discovered the hard way, the PPTP masquerading module
which shipped with RH 7 does not work. I've built a new RPM which includes
a new ip_masq_pptp kernel module, which includes an addition patch - this
is required, according to:

 http://www.impsec.org/linux/masquerade/ip_masq_vpn.html

Because this RPM includes files which are already installed with the
kernel RPMs, you will need to use the --force option to rpm to install:

rpm -Uhv ip_masq_gre-0.1.1-1.i386.rpm

After installing the RPM, you can load the PPTP masquerade module using:

modprobe ip_masq_pptp

I haven't tested that this actually works, only that the RPM installs
cleanly, and the module loads cleanly. There may be additional IPchains
rules required to allow the relevant packets in and out.

The RPM is called ip_masq_gre because it also includes updated
ip_masq_ipsec modules (both uniprocessor and smp) - ipsec is another
protocol which uses GRE.

The source and binary modules can be found in:

ftp://ftp.e-smith.org/pub/e-smith/contrib/charlieb/SPRMS

and

ftp://ftp.e-smith.org/pub/e-smith/contrib/charlieb/RPMS/i386/RH7.0

Don't use on a production server, always wear a seat belt and have fun.

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