VPN

I've hit the 16 user limit on the PPTP connections.  I've e-mail Chris Buechler per his request on this page http://chrisbuechler.com/index.php?id=19, but I'm not sure if he's still making the custom images.  Since this is affecting company operations, I'm looking for an alternative, just in case he's not doing that anymore. 

Under the VPN: PPTP: Configuration section is a PPTP redirect.  Is anyone using this to redirect the connections to other hardware?  If so, what would you recommend to do this?

Changing to IPSEC isn't possible as the company has users scattered all over the US and abroad and getting their gear back would be a nightmare.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.  Thanks.

IIRC, the 16 connection limit is the size of the address pool.  You should be able to go over that limit if you assign specific IP addresses to each username (so you'd need 20 username/passwords for 20 users).

Interesting.  I had not ran across that suggestion during my search.  Thanks. 

I've not used that section before.  Is it a seamless process or does another box pop up for authentication before the VPN connection is allowed to continue?  If so, is there a way to make it seamless with the Microsoft VPN connector?

I've started testing that setup and I'm noticing that the verbage on that page still says "Max concurrent connections" is 16.  Is that ignored when assigning users to IP addresses?

I've run across an issue setting up the VPN clients as you suggested.  It seems that if you assign an IP address to a user, the default gateway is the IP address you've set the user to use.  It causes the client to get confused on where to send some of the data.  Other clients can't send/receive any data to the LAN at all although they are connected with an IP address for the LAN issued to them.

I've tried to configure the Microsoft VPN client with the default gateway for the LAN they are connecting to but there doesn't seem to be a way to do this with that client.

Suggestions?

Have a look at this post from last week.  Might be useful.
http://forum.m0n0.ch/index.php/topic,1166.0.html

Yep, that's exactly what I need except I run on a Soekris 4801 box.  That image is for a generic-pc.

Anyone know where I can get a 50-60 VPN client modification of the current m0n0wall version?

I did find something interesting as a result of that thread.  Chris has created a 62 PPTP version of 1.22.  I'm running 1.231.  Would there be a big issue with going backwards to use that version? (the 16 user limit is killing me with all the new people that the company is adding).

http://chrisbuechler.com/m0n0wall/downloads/

I'll put up some new images this weekend.