VPN - VPN ports

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VPN ports

Raul

2005-06-01, 8:45 pm

anyone knows which ports I have to open up on the router in order to use
Microsoft's PPTP wan drivers - VPN?

Thanks,

T. Sean Weintz

2005-06-02, 5:47 pm

Raul wrote:
> anyone knows which ports I have to open up on the router in order to use
> Microsoft's PPTP wan drivers - VPN?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>

Firstly, you need to open up for GRE protocol, which has no ports - it's
not TCP or UDP, it's its own protocol. Not all routers will support you
making an exception for this protocol.

In addition to that, you need TCP port 1723.