On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 04:17:50PM +0100, Anders Pettersson wrote: > Hi Stan > > I will answer your question regarding "Microsoft VPN" instead. The corporate > support folks might have told you that the most common Microsoft VPN type > [still] is something called PPTP: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-point_tunneling_protocol > > It uses TCP port 1723 as "control channel" but also use GRE for the actual > tunneling of the traffic. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Routing_Encapsulation > > You need to also allow the "proto gre" in pf to make your VPN connection work. > > I hope this point you in the right direction, > Thanks, the gre was the clue I needed. Nw off to understand what the heck that is.
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