TomatoUSB

Hi,

Newbie in town! I installed Tomato USB Ext (v2.4) on my Asus WL520GU. Can someone tell me if PPTP and/or L2TP passthrough are supported to connect mobile clients such as iPhone or windows machines to connect to my internal Windows Home Server?

I know this was working on the stock Asus firmware but now with Tomato it seems not to and I see no enable or disable in the GUI. Any scripts or workarounds (with instructions) would be very useful.

I did search but could not find a definitive answer.

cheers

no PPTP server GUI yet. But there is tutorial. See Left column tutorial on how to do it.

Thank you for the fast response.

I was very surprised there is no passthrough available, does anyone know why? Is it tricky to implement. I saw DDWRT had it but Tomato wins hands down when it comes to USB connectivity.

Are there any plans to implement a PPTP passthrough?

PPTP passthrough? you mean PPTP client. It is available.

Sorry as a newbie I get confused.

On the original ASUS firmware page it has

VPN Features IPSec Pass-Through, PPTP Pass-Through, L2TP Pass-Through

in DDWRT there is a setting for each of these to enable GRE 47 for PPTP. So these worked on ASUS and DDWRT firmware.

So I assumed that the firmware in the above 2 cases just lets the right protocols/packets between WAN and LAN? Open VPN does not work for iPhones I am told.

So I guess I have to follow the tutorial in the link tomatousb.org/tut:configuring-a-pptp-vpn?

Look at = Contrac/netfilter => Tracking / NAT Helpers there you have pass-through,

What you need is PPTP server to be able to connect iphone. At the moment, your only option is to follow the tutorial.
In DDWRT, inorder to use PPTP, Passthrough must be enabled. When I test tomato PPTP client, it works without enabling anything. It has advantage over ddwrt in the sense that it can display https sites.

Thank you I appreciate all you patience leandroong and understanding while answering my questions.

MR_Q I did see those settings and there seemed to be contradictory posts as to their usage and if they should be checked or not

I will move onto the tutorial and look at the NAT Helpers also.

I had once an experience that I needed a temporary PPTP VPN server built in a WinXP-PC and the PC was run behind the Tomato router, I set a tcp/1723 port forwarding to that PC, and it worked for me.

Now you have a Windows Home Server also is running behinad the Tomato 529GU that is quite similar to what I had done, so maybe you can try to see if it also works for you.

Yeah I did try that but I was getting an error

The user SERVER\name connected to port VPN3-127 has been disconnected because no network protocols were successfully negotiated.

I will also give your suggestion another go.