[Openswan Users] NAT not needed on both sides

Nate Carlson natecars at natecarlson.com
Tue Apr 6 10:41:16 CEST 2004


On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Marcel J.E. Mol wrote:
> I have not completely determined this yet for a windows XP machine as
> hostB, but so far the connection it seems to work fine on a plain winxp
> machine using the vpn.bootis.de tool. (e.g. without service pack 1). So
> without NAT support on the windows side, which is added with service
> pack 1 I believe (can anyone confim this last statement?)

NAT support is added to Windows XP with an update from MS:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B818043

It requires SP1 (IIRC), and the update is *only* available from the 
catalog - not Windows Update.

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