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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: schotty on September 06, 2004, 10:50:03 AM

Title: PPTP
Post by: schotty on September 06, 2004, 10:50:03 AM

Hello all!!

I need some help in usinf VPN or PPTP.

Following Setup :

Customer :

IP-COP - DYNDNS - Changing Internet IP
E-Smith
Clients


Me :
W2k & XP Client

I would like to VPN into the customer network from home.

I had a few problems with IP-COP and would like to try and use pptp with e-smith.
Which port would I need to forward from the IP-COP so that it reaches the e-smith server??

Is PPTP really a bad security hole???
Would an upgrade to openvpn be better??

Many thanks

Schotty

Title: PPTP
Post by: cc_skavenger on September 06, 2004, 11:02:44 AM

port forward 1723 and 47.  Any open port can be a treat.  As long as you have a good password, and change it frequently, you should e ok.

HTH

Title: PPTP
Post by: SSBN on September 07, 2004, 02:49:12 PM

Don’t forget it is protocol 47 not port 47. If IP-Cop is like SmoothWall you can’t forward protocols with the web gui. You will have to do it by hand in the iptables.