PPTP servers encompassing port 500 blah blah blah . . . ?

[JCROCCO]

Ok, configuring router now. Checking router conforms to guidlines before proceeding.

There is one I am stumped on, "You should have NO PPTP or IPSec (port 500)Servers added to your enabled NAT Server List, if so delete. "

when I check this out, I see

Easy-Servers with private address of 0.0.0.0, public address of 0.0.0.0 and port 1-49151.

Does then do I delete or no?

 

[BlitzRommel]

Huh?

 

[JCROCCO]

thats what I said.

SInce the ports are from 1 - 49151, i dont know if the description of it encompassing port 500 is related to it, or if it even is a PPTP or IPSec port.

 

[mboy]

port 500 is for IKE. What they are saying is if you have PC's nat'd behind the router, then do NOT have any of those LAN Ip's mapped to forward to.
I have a Netopia 5100 T1 router. I run NAT/PAT off of my router, then have a sonicwall Pro 200 Bridged behind it then my LAN.
I map one of my Public IP's to pass UDP 500 to my LAN Sonicwaal IP and run my VPN tunnel thru the Netopia, terminating at the Sonicwall.

If I didn't forward port 500/udp, then My snapgear at home, would be trying to conect the tunnel to the Netopia.

So in theory you shouldn't have to delete it.

Does that help?

 

[JCROCCO]

Yes it does, thank you.

In fact, that was so confusing that Netopia had taken that out of their menu with the newest firmware version, that it is just built in to accept telnet automatically. Now, following those same steps, I see nothing, as it should be, thus no confusion.

thank you.

 

[mboy]

Cool. What bothwers me about my T1 netopia is that it wont allow SSH admin, only telnet and PPP is enabled by default and seems no way to turn it off.