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Subject: RE: PPTP setup
From: "Jarmon, Don R" <drjarmon @ ingr . com>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 07:05:21 -0600
To: "'Russ . Cooper . RC . on . ca @ GreatCircle . COM'" <Russ . Cooper . RC . on . ca @ GreatCircle . COM>, "'rbc @ lava . net'" <rbc @ lava . net>
Cc: "'firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM'" <firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM>

Thanks for all who responded to this query.  FYI: The PPTP Client uses
TCP Port 1723 to communicated with the server.  Still having problems
with authenication for remote client.

>----------
>From: 	rbc @
 lava .
 net[SMTP:rbc @
 lava .
 net]
>Sent: 	Thursday, October 31, 1996 3:49 PM
>To: 	Russ .
 Cooper .
 RC .
 on .
 ca @
 GreatCircle .
 COM
>Cc: 	Jarmon, Don R; firewalls @
 GreatCircle .
 COM
>Subject: 	RE: PPTP setup
>
>   From: Russ <Russ .
 Cooper .
 RC .
 on .
 ca @
 GreatCircle .
 COM>
>   Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 01:12:13 -0500
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>   Don Jarmon asked...
>   >I was planning to add a Dual NIC NTS4.0 server to a DMZ.  One
>   >NIC configured to support PPTP and the other NIC connected
>   >to the Intranet.  I was wondering 'bout what type of access is
>   >needed on the boundry router to support Remote PPTP enabled
>   >Internet Clients.
>
>According to the internet draft the PNS, (PPTP Network Server)
>receives an incoming TCP call on port 5678.  If that is true then the
>DMZ external router would need to allow an incoming TCP call on port
>5678 of the pptp server.
>
>In a cisco, that would look something like this:
>
>! pptp incoming to PNS
>access-list 100 permit tcp 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX 0.0.0.0 eq
>5678
>
>(where XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is the PNS server IP address)
>
>This access list could be refered to in the external interface setup
>with a "ip access-group 100 in".  You might need to have additional
>filter entries if you filter outbound packets from your DMZ router's
>internal interface.
>
>I haven't tried this but it seems reasonable,
>
>			--Bruce
>
>-- 
>Robert B. Carleton + rbc @
 lava .
 net + http://www.lava.net/~rbc
>


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