several sites through router
We have several machines here among which are 192.168.5.66 and 192.168.5.68. They each are running pptp and try to connect via pppd to another site (actually in China) and establish a VPN. Now the first machine connects fine and sets up an VPN id of 10.0.0.26. Problem is, the second just times out. It connects but never makes a connection.
What I think I finally figured out is that they are both going through router W.X.Y.Z (I am leaving the IP address of this router anonymous which we use to connect to the internet), so probably the VPN server in China gets confused and does not realize it is a new machine, and so just ignores the connection attempt or something.
Now I have control of all the machines, clients and server, and they are all running poptop available through CentOS 4.5. Is there anyway I can make the server so it allowd multiple connections? I do specify in the one client IP address 10.0.0.26 and in the other 10.0.0.27.
Thanks
This has nothing to do with pppd, but is a common problem with pptp, in future ask on the pptpclient-devel mailing list instead. Or even the poptop (pptpd) mailing list.
Since I'm there anyway ... what you describe is a failure of the router to use a unique call identifier when it readdresses the packets, or a failure of the pptpd at the remote site to demultiplex the PPP over GRE stream.
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Now I have control of all the machines, clients and server, and they are all running poptop available through CentOS 4.5.
You should use OpenVPN instead then.
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James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/
Will openvpn allow you to assign IP address by user id?
I mean its true now that when I make the pppd call I can specify (request) what address I want, but it would be nice if the server could do the assigning. Clients do rely on receiving the same IP address. (I mean the same one, but each client gets a different IP).
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From: James Cameron [mailto:[email protected]]
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Subject: Re: several sites through router
This has nothing to do with pppd, but is a common problem with pptp, in future ask on the pptpclient-devel mailing list instead. Or even the poptop (pptpd) mailing list.
Since I'm there anyway ... what you describe is a failure of the router to use a unique call identifier when it readdresses the packets, or a failure of the pptpd at the remote site to demultiplex the PPP over GRE stream.
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Now I have control of all the machines, clients and server, and they are all running poptop available through CentOS 4.5.
You should use OpenVPN instead then.
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Will openvpn allow you to assign IP address by user id?
This is not the right place to be asking questions about openvpn. Please read the documentation, and find the appropriate support forum.
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I mean its true now that when I make the pppd call I can specify (request) what address I want, but it would be nice if the server could do the assigning. Clients do rely on receiving the same IP address. (I mean the same one, but each client gets a different IP).
-----Original Message-----
From: James Cameron [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 08:12 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: several sites through routerThis has nothing to do with pppd, but is a common problem with pptp, in future ask on the pptpclient-devel mailing list instead. Or even the poptop (pptpd) mailing list.
Since I'm there anyway ... what you describe is a failure of the router to use a unique call identifier when it readdresses the packets, or a failure of the pptpd at the remote site to demultiplex the PPP over GRE stream.
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Now I have control of all the machines, clients and server, and they are all running poptop available through CentOS 4.5.
You should use OpenVPN instead then.