PPTP links are no longer dropped by simple (and inappropriate in this
case) "inactivity timeout" procedure, only when requested through the
control connection.
It is now possible to have multiple PPTP servers running behind NAT.
Just redirect the incoming TCP traffic to port 1723, everything else
is done transparently.
Problems were reported and the fix was tested by:
Michael Adler <Michael.Adler@compaq.com>,
David Andersen <dga@lcs.mit.edu>
datagram embedded into ICMP error message, not with protocol
field of ICMP message itself (which is always IPPROTO_ICMP).
Pointed by: Erik Salander <erik@whistle.com>
not alias `ip_src' unless it comes from the host an original
datagram that triggered this error message was destined for.
PR: 20712
Reviewed by: brian, Charles Mott <cmott@scientech.com>
- Multiple PPTP clients behind NAT to the same or different servers.
- Single PPTP server behind NAT -- you just need to redirect TCP
port 1723 to a local machine. Multiple servers behind NAT is
possible but would require a simple API change.
- No API changes!
For more information on how this works see comments at the start of
the alias_pptp.c.
PacketAliasPptp() is no longer necessary and will be removed soon.
Submitted by: Erik Salander <erik@whistle.com>
Reviewed by: ru
Rewritten by: ru
Reviewed by: Erik Salander <erik@whistle.com>
to PPTP) with more generic PacketAliasRedirectProto().
Major number is not bumped because it is believed that noone
has started using PacketAliasRedirectPptp() yet.
In the words of originator:
:If an incoming connection is initiated through natd and deny_incoming is
:not set, then a new alias_link structure is created to handle the link.
:If there is nothing listening for the incoming connection, then the kernel
:responds with a RST for the connection. However, this is not processed
:correctly in libalias/alias.c:TcpMonitor{In,Out} and
:libalias/alias_db.c:SetState{In,Out} as it thinks a connection
:has been established and therefore applies a timeout of 86400 seconds
:to the link.
:
:If many of these half-connections are initiated (during, for example, a
:port scan of the host), then many thousands of unnecessary links are
:created and the resident size of natd balloons to 20MB or more.
PR: 13639
Reviewed by: brian
- Transparent proxying support added.
- PPTP redirecting support added based on patches
contributed by Dru Nelson <dnelson@redwoodsoft.com>.
Submitted by: Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net>
Add bounds checking to netbios NS packet resolving code. This should
prevent natd from crashing on badly formed netbios packets (as might be
heard when the machine is sitting on a cable modem or certain DSL
networks), and also closes potential security holes that might have
exploited the lack of bounds checking in the previous version of the
code.
ppp (or will be shortly). Natd can now be updated to use
this library rather than carrying its own version of the code.
Submitted by: Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net>
