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RE: ASUS AAM6000EV and PPTP

From: Craig Humphrey <Craig.Humphrey_at_ChapmanTripp.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 10:06:48 +1200
Message-ID: <3D6694DB1788D311BA3E00508B5DFFE704F27C5F@aklmessage01>

Hmmm... just did some research:
http://nscsysop.hypermart.net/vpnnat.html

seems to reckon that if you can get firmware version 71205a10, you might be
in luck. www.nzadsl.co.nz has a1 and a32, so a32 might actually do the
trick. I'll nab it tonight when I get home and give it a burl.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Humphrey [mailto:Craig.Humphrey@ChapmanTripp.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 2 October 2002 9:59 AM
> To: adsl@lists.unixathome.org
> Subject: RE: ASUS AAM6000EV and PPTP
>
>
> It depends on your firmware version and what you're trying to do.
>
> The firmware version I'm using (71205a1) has all "support"
> for PPTP removed.
> However, older versions had an implementation of PPTP that
> allowed the ASUS
> to form a PPTP connection to a PPTP server.
> While this appeared to work, I didn't play with it long
> enough to see if it
> was really beneficial, as what you normally want to do is
> have the ADSL
> router support the passing through of PPTP connections, so your PC can
> establish a PPTP connection to a PPTP server.
>
> I keep hearing roomers that GRE support is to be included in a future
> firmware release, but things have been pretty quiet from ASUS
> for sometime
> now.
>
> Having said all that, I just popped over to
> http://www.nzadsl.co.nz/software/asus/Default.htm and saw
> that there's a
> newer (than mine) version of the firmware (71205a32 dated
> 29th August 2002),
> so it may be in there (I didn't see any release notes, though
> the filter
> document [and functionality] is new I think)
>
> Later'ish
> Craig
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Neil Gardner [mailto:neil@neilnz.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:25 PM
> > To: adsl@lists.unixathome.org
> > Subject: ASUS AAM6000EV and PPTP
> >
> >
> > I've read the FAQs saying that the external ADSL router in
> > the title of
> > this email DOESN'T do PPTP (i.e. can't connect to a remote
> > PPTP server)
> > but there are websites which say it does work.
> >
> > I have just swapped out an M1122 and tried my link to my work PPTP
> > server and it fails to authenticate through the Asus...
> >
> > Is this a config issue I can work through, or am I
> thoroughly shagged?
> >
> > Yes I RTFM and STFW and I got confusing results.
> >
> > Cheers - Neil G
> >
> >
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