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Firewall Wizards: Re: IPTables is not forwarding traffic for PPTP or VNC

Re: IPTables is not forwarding traffic for PPTP or VNC

From: Julian Gomez <kluivert_at_tm.net.my>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:15:38 +0800

Alex L wrote:

>Hi all !
>
>I'm new on this list...
>
>I've got a problem with IPTables ( Fedora Core 2 ) rules which are
>just not working at all ..
>
>I've added PREROUTING rules to forward incoming traffic to a Server.
>SMTP forwarding is working, but not PPTP + GRE or VNC !
>
>I thought, it might be a limitation in the FORWARD so I set the
>default POLICY to ALLOW instead of DROP and removed all rules which
>would apply to PPTP or GRE to make sure they don't interfere.
>
>But still - it just didn't work ..
>
>Does anybody know if I need an update of IPTables ? I actually
>installed the latest stable version and compilation went fine.
>
>

For PPTP, you need to ensure that the pptp_conntrack_* modules are
loaded. Depending on
which distribution you use, they might not be readily available; so
you'll need to recompile
from source. At least, that's how it was when I last played with it
about 2-3 years ago ;-)

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