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RE: (ASCEND) can Max be PPTP server?
I don't think that it is possible.
The only PPTP Server that I know about is Win NT 4.0, SP3.
This is not too hard to set up, just don't expect the M$ docs to tell
you
everything you need to know ;->
Steve LaDuke.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Pautler [SMTP:pautler@grasshopper.cit.buffalo.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, March 28, 1998 2:04 PM
> To: ascend-users@bungi.com
> Subject: (ASCEND) can Max be PPTP server?
>
>
> Here's the scenario.... we have a class B (128.205.0.0/16) worth of
> address space, and there are some services that are only available
> to users with source IP addresses within that class B. We have
> Ascend units (4048, TNT) to support dialin access directly to our
> network, however many people use other services such as aol, cable
> modems, etc, which give them an address that is NOT within our
> class B. We need a way to make these people look like they
> are coming from within our class B. That leads us to PPTP.... set
> up a PPTP server so that these users could tunnel into that, and
> then from there they would like they were coming from within our
> class B. Is there any way to use our Ascend boxes
> to facilitate something like this? In other words, is there any
> way to be able to tunnel *to* an Ascend box via its network interface,
> and then look as if you are coming from the IP address of the Ascend
> box, or one that it uses?
>
> From everything I have read, I see no way of doing this. Everything I
> have seen has to do with using the Ascend as the PPTP *client*, in
> order to set up tunnels to a PPTP server to support the users dialed
> into the Ascend. But, I just wanted to toss it out to this list to
> see if any of you had any comments.
>
> Thanks in advance for any replies!
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
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> Joe Pautler, E.I.T. University at Buffalo
> CIT/OSS Network Engineering 224 Computing Center
> http://www.oss.buffalo.edu/~pautler (716) 645-3536
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