Newb here, I need help opening port 1723 and setting a public IP address to aprivate IP

[Gary W. Smith]

Daniel, 

You should also take a look at pptp-client.sourceforge.net.  It has a
lot of information regarding the PPTP subject.  I have had to implement
several PPTP servers and clients in Linux.  I have found that it's no
fun when you run into the issue of NAT'd clients behind a Linux
firewall.  You have to do small things like recompile the kernel, etc.

Gary Smith

> 
> Hmmm, I would advise anyone to move away from PPTP in particular and
> from Windows in general. PPTP has known vulnerabilities. OpenVPN is a
> real winner with multiplatform support and using OpenSSL for crypto
> code ... as opposed to MPPE ... ugh!
> 
> I'll spare the list any OS advocacy, but I do believe you can do much
> more on Linux, and more safely, and without the uncertainty which is
> built-in to proprietary junkware.
> 
> Anyway, this list is probably not a good place to find out about
> features in Windows.
> 
> > I need the vpn's Public IP to point to the private IP of our
> > VPN server
>