I've had bad luck with mpd. I couldn't get to work. So, I went back to 
use PoPToP. My firewall blocks GRE (or so I think), and there's nothing 
I can do about it. I'l keep trying. Thanks for all the help and expect 
to hear from me again.

MrWebby

Jim Durham wrote:

>On Friday 11 October 2002 04:56 pm, you wrote:
>
>>I found YOUR post in the FreeBSD mailing list archive:
>>
>>_________________________________________________
>>Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 11:00 PM
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Re: VPN - some questions
>>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1629381+1634913+/usr/local/www/
>>db/text/2002/freebsd-questions/20020908.freebsd-questions
>>_________________________________________________
>>
>>I'm trying to get my laptop (Win2k) or any
>>other Windows 2000 machine to connect to my FreeBSD server connected to
>>the internet thu a cable modem. My setup involves a D-Link DI-707
>>NAT/Firewall/Router connected to the Cable Modem. My client is somewhere
>>    on in Internet behind a firewall or similar (Cable/DSL).
>>
>
>What I do here is run mpd set up for pptp. If you install the mpd port, it 
>comes with sample config files, including sections of an example pptp
>setup. This has worked well for me. You don't use IPSEC with it, it
>has it's own encryption. 
>
>PPTP uses a packet type called GRE. Some firewalls don't understand GRE 
>packets. I had that problem with ipfw. I had to go to a "default to accept"
>policy and then block all dangerous ports to get it to work.
>
>It's also possible that the cable modem folks are blocking your GRE stuff.
>
>-Jim
>
>
>



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