[Gllug] Recommend an ADSL modem?

[Bruce Richardson]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:03:18AM +0000, Doug wrote:
> I expect for everything you ever want to do there is some retail NAT box
> that will bugger it up :)  

No, it's an issue with the PPTP protocol.

> 
> However, IIRC the PPTP messages don't at any point contain the IP
> address of the client system, which means connections can be initiated
> from behind a NAT system.  Certainly it's working successfully here for
> a number of people.

Try having them all connect to the same server at the same time.  PPTP
servers assign one control channel to each IP address that makes a
connection.  This control channel is used to distinguish between
different sessions launched by the same client and cannot cope with
multiple NAT-ed clients.

-- 
Bruce

I am now a little wary of bananas.
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