Re: PIX, PPTP and Internet access for PPTP users...
From: Michael J. Pelletier (mjpelletier_at_mjpelletier.com)
Date: 03/16/05
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Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:51:49 -0800
If I were to use a router would I have the same problem?
Michael
William L. Sun wrote:
> It is true that "PIX will not allow you to route out the same interface
> the encrypted packet came in on". The only thing you can do is to let the
> VPN client to use Proxy server.
>
> "Michael J. Pelletier" <mjpelletier@mjpelletier.com> wrote in message
> news:9NNZd.237004$0u.71183@fed1read04...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a PIX 525e that is my company's firewall and VPN (for remote site
>> connectivity). Today, I configured it to do PPTP for some of our
>> employees hoping to get away from the MS PPTP server. I noticed today
>> while testing the configuration that I could not get to the Internet when
>> using PPTP. Now, I know I can configure it to do "split tunneling"
>> however, I do not wish to do split tunneling (long story, not my choice).
>>
>> I read a post from some news group that the PIX will not allow you to
> route
>> out the same interface the encrypted packet came in on. In other words
>> the "outside" interface is the PPTP tunnel end point and I can not route
>> (the client using PPTP) the packet out into the Internet (also the
>> outside interface). I can only use it to connect to internal PCs.
>>
>> Is this true?
>> Is there any work around?
>> If I used a router for PPTP could I get around this?
>>
>> P.S. I know PPTP sucks (that also is not my choice)
>>
>> Michael
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