On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 11:58:00AM +1000, Scott Waller wrote:
> Hi Fellow Sluggers,
> 
> I have searched Hi and Lo and need help.  I have a weird setup here but
> it works well and I would like to try and keep my setup.
> 
> The Scene
> 
> I have a FC6 machine running a firewalling prog called acacia, it was
> written by one of Red Hat's head guys, it has served me well for many
> years but my situation has changed slightly.  I have a newish job, they
> are windows crazy (another story for another time), they have a MS VPN
> setup.  The idea is that all the "road warriors" can connect via their
> NextG cards or from their homes though the VPN to the office, this
> allows them to connect to the Exchange server etc.
> 
> I also have a laptop (WinXP) that connects through the VPN every where I
> have tried, but not at my place.  It is good in some respects because I
> can't do work from home (YAY).
> 
> Anyway, this week the wife has been sick and I now need to connect to
> work to get emails etc, but I just can't make it work.  I am pulling
> what hair I have let out!
> 
> The Acacia program uses iptables as it's back bone I guess, it also uses
> ULOGD to log the traffic.
> 
> EG log file
> 
> fw acacia E violation: IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC=(null) SRC=66.124.120.195
> DST=220.245.83.141 LEN=163 TOS=00 PREC=0x00 TTL=119 ID=23307 DF
> PROTO=TCP SPT=443 DPT=1369 SEQ=1872663048 ACK=2546150166 WINDOW=65463
> ACK PSH FIN URGP=0
> 
> This is an example of an "External" violation, ie someone scanning my
> firewall.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> acacia IE violation: IN=eth0 OUT=ppp0
> MAC=00:a0:cc:3e:22:44:00:16:6f:6c:3d:48:08:00  SRC=10.0.0.52
> DST=203.63.234.178 LEN=52 TOS=00 PREC=0x00 TTL=127 ID=9213 
> 
> This is an example of the log when I try and connect to my work VPN
> 
> 
> 
> When I try to connect (laptop) it seems to talk to work but once it
> comes to the user name and password to times out.  If I have the wrong
> password it will tell me, as I said before, I can connect through a
> Telstra Hot Spot of McDonalds for example, I can use the hotel internet
> when I am away to connect......
> 
> I have added in these lines into my acacia.conf file
> 
> iptables -A INPUT -p 47 -j ACCEPT
> 
> iptables -A OUTPUT -p 47 -j ACCEPT
> iptables -A INPUT -p TCP -s 0.0.0.0/0 --source-port 1723 -j ACCEPT
> iptables -A OUTPUT -p TCP -d 0.0.0.0/0 --destination-port 1723 -j ACCEPT
with out looking at all the tables I would guess you need a forward rule as 
well.


you might also want to look at openvpn - solution works for windows and linux 
and its free and it works through a proxy server!
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Scott Waller
> E.   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> M.  0439 168 103
> F.    02 9838 1782
> W.   www.wallers.com.au
> 
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