[tech] flying and pptp

[Adrian Chadd]

Uhm. Here's my advice - don't. If you want to do that, get flying
a block of real IPs to hand out DHCP leases from.

I mean, NATting tunnel protocols may seem cool, but its a real gross
hack. Even grosser than NAT. :0




Adrian



On Wed, Aug 07, 2002, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> Tech,
> 
> trs80 and I have been tinkering with flying in an attempt to
> persuade it to accept GRE connections and tunneling, so people (me)
> can use SNAP over flying. Thus far, we have been unsuccessful. In
> the meantime, flying has a new 2.4.17 kernel, with a patch for
> ip_nat_pptp from
> http://www.impsec.org/linux/masquerade/ip_masq_vpn.html
> 
> As a side-effect, it is now using the orinoco_cs drivers instead of
> the previous wvlan_cs from the original 2.4.2-2 kernel. Lines were
> added to the end of /etc/pcmcia/config.opts and /etc/modules.conf to
> recognise it.
> 
> Another side-effect is that iwconfig now segfaults (after showing
> output) which is probably resolvable by a new version of
> wireless-tools.
> 
> In the process of rebooting, it was also discovered that flying's
> video card isn't functioning. No big deal, but just to note.
> 
> Is still work in progress...
> 
> Bernard.
> 
> -- 
>  Bernard Blackham
>  bernard at blackham.com.au
>  Australian Linux Technical Conference 2003: http://www.linux.conf.au/