On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Mikel Jimenez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello
> In a Wan PPTP client connection what I have to put in local address BOX??
>
> Please help me, is very important for my live.

First of all, if it's important/crucial for a live installation, you
should have done your home work properly before attempting an
installation of something as business crucial as a firewall
installation. Now that I've pointed my finger at you, I can try to
give you a helping hand as I actually use the PPTP VPN solution in
pfSense myself.

The good thing about PPTP is that basically any Windows installation
since Windows 2000 (or is it 98) has built in support for PPTP. All
you gotta do on the client side, is point the connection to the public
IP that the pfSense box uses. If you are unsure what IP that is, you
can use a client on the inside (LAN) network and try a connection to
http://www.whatismyip.org or a similar service.

With Windows XP and Vista, the preferred authentication methods
(encryption wise) are already on as default, so you should be able to
log on. Just make sure you add a user on the users page, or better
yet, set up a RADIUS authentication scheme if you use a Active
Directory on your local network. This means you have to set up IAS as
well.

As for the local IP, you need to set aside enough space on your local
/24 range, so that PPTP can get the 16 ip addresses it needs. This
number can't be changed. This range of 16 ip's can't be used by the
DHCP server, or any statically assigned network device, as that will
cause network routing problems.

Hope this clears things up.

-- 
Yours sincerely Jostein Elvaker Haande
A free society is a place where it is safe to be unpopular

http://tolecnal.net -- tolecnal at tolecnal dot net

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