Hi,
I am a beginner in Linux and hope there is someone that can help me configure the following:
I have a DSL line with a NAT router that connects some clients in a private network to the internet. What I would like to configure is a server that allows Windows clients from the internet to connect to the private network and access some machines there.
I already tried to configure poptop on a Suse Linux 9 machine to do so, but had no success. Is there a step by step description somewhere that allows even me to configure this?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Markus
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perhaps you should go over this step by step:
first see if you can make the poptop server work for clients within your home/company network,
then try to make the firewall forward both tcp port 1723 and the gre protocol (nr 47 <- protocol nr _not_ port nr!) to your poptop server.
I recall having done so earlier on a redhat box, after a linux nat router (freesco, so a tad more configurable than most cheap hardware dsl routers sold nowadays)
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Yes i do have a step by step description. Its easy.
Here an example of the /etc/pptpd.conf file
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speed 115200
option /etc/ppp/options
localip 192.168.3.5 <--Ip Suse system
remoteip 192.168.3.35-45 <-Clien IP range
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Now the /etc/ppp/options file
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lock
name pptpd
bsdcomp 0
auth
require-chap
ms-dns 192.168.3.5 <--IP of Suse System
netmask 255.0.0.0
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Now the usernames and passwords file:
/etc/ppp/chap-secrets
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# username server password IP addresses
user1 * password1 *
user2 * password2 *
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Now start the pptp deamon or start it youself by
entering: pptpd -l server_ip_adres
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Hi,
I am a beginner in Linux and hope there is someone that can help me configure the following:
I have a DSL line with a NAT router that connects some clients in a private network to the internet. What I would like to configure is a server that allows Windows clients from the internet to connect to the private network and access some machines there.
I already tried to configure poptop on a Suse Linux 9 machine to do so, but had no success. Is there a step by step description somewhere that allows even me to configure this?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Markus
perhaps you should go over this step by step:
first see if you can make the poptop server work for clients within your home/company network,
then try to make the firewall forward both tcp port 1723 and the gre protocol (nr 47 <- protocol nr _not_ port nr!) to your poptop server.
I recall having done so earlier on a redhat box, after a linux nat router (freesco, so a tad more configurable than most cheap hardware dsl routers sold nowadays)
Yes i do have a step by step description. Its easy.
Here an example of the /etc/pptpd.conf file
--------------------------
speed 115200
option /etc/ppp/options
localip 192.168.3.5 <--Ip Suse system
remoteip 192.168.3.35-45 <-Clien IP range
--------------------------
Now the /etc/ppp/options file
------------------------------
lock
name pptpd
bsdcomp 0
auth
require-chap
ms-dns 192.168.3.5 <--IP of Suse System
netmask 255.0.0.0
-----------------------------
Now the usernames and passwords file:
/etc/ppp/chap-secrets
-----------------------------
# username server password IP addresses
user1 * password1 *
user2 * password2 *
-----------------------------
Now start the pptp deamon or start it youself by
entering: pptpd -l server_ip_adres