Why are M$ so different?

[The_Unbeliever]

Installed SME Server and Smoothwall today.

Portforwarded port 1723 to the SME box. VPN works like a dream.

Now... if I portforward port 1723 to an M$ box, VPN refuses to work, unless you add the following script to rc.firewall.up :

(been there, done that, got the T-shirt)

http://martybugs.net/smoothwall/vpn.cgi

vpnserver="172.16.0.2"
/sbin/iptables -N pptp
/sbin/iptables -A pptp -p tcp --destination-port 1723 --dst $vpnserver -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A pptp -p 47 --dst $vpnserver -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -I FORWARD -j pptp
/sbin/iptables -t nat -N pptp
/sbin/iptables -t nat -A pptp -i $RED_DEV -p tcp --dport 1723 -j DNAT --to $vpnserver:1723
/sbin/iptables -t nat -A pptp -i $RED_DEV -p 47 -j DNAT --to $vpnserver
/sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -j pptp

Why are M$ stuff so different?

bleugh....

 

[ghalied]

you should have just opened port 47 for the GRE Protocol

 

[The_Unbeliever]

you should have just opened port 47 for the GRE Protocol

But the point is - why two ports to open when all Linux needs is one port?

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

Why is Linux so different?

I'm sure they just use different methods for the same thing... well they couldn't copy each other :O