HOW TO: PPTP Bridging

[Robert Dailey]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for your reply.
> >
> > What am I supposed to do with the code snippets in the green areas in the
> > page you linked me to? Are those scripts?
>
> The code in the green areas is configuration information for the
> iptables firewall.
>
> Hopefully without offending anyone,  I'm inclined to think that while
> this is doable - perhaps you shouldn't.  Setting it up will be
> technically challenging, and troubleshooting issues later even more
> so.
>
> If someone else here has a more plug-n-pray solution please speak up now
> :-)
>
> Maybe we can help a different way.  Why do you not want to connect the
> XP machine directly to the VPN server?  PPTP tunnels start very
> quickly usually so I'm not sure why you are trying to set up a middle
> man.  Maybe understanding the issue better will prompt other thoughts.


Well, partly just to play around with my server & become more familiar with
linux, but mainly to resolve another issue that is out of the scope of this
topic. Mainly, I'm having an issue on Windows XP where my VPN connection
disconnects after about 5 minutes of idle time. I can't seem to figure out
what the problem is, so as a work around I wanted to try to establish the
VPN connection on my linux server. However, through my investigations I've
found that doing so in linux is insanely complicated.

I may just forget about it unless I can find a fairly straight forward
alternative. Again, thanks for helping out.
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