Topic: VPN Masquerading

[Mark B]

A client of mine has an e-smith gateway running the 2.2.16-22 kernel and is trying to VPN using PPTP to a remote host on the net from behind the e-smith gateway.

It currently isn't working. I've had a look and have loaded the two modules ip_pptp_masq.o and ip_GRE.o and checked the firewall with no success. Removed the firewall altogether and added only a MASQ entry with default policy of accept with no success. The one thing I have noticed is the ip_GRE.o module remains unused during these attempts in the kernel.

Any help appreaciated.

[Franck]

ip_GRE.o is not needed for PPTP Masquerading.

I bet your client is using E-Smith 4.1.1 : PPTP masquerading is broken on this version... You'll have to upgrade to at least 4.1.2 to make it working (there's no patch available to make it working on 4.1.1).

[Mark B]

You would be correct. Thankyou.