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Figure 21-43 Endpoints must have their own IP addresses.

PPTP VPNs

So how do we make IP addresses appear out of thin air? Microsoft got the

ball rolling with the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP), an advanced

version of PPP (used for dial-up Internet, as discussed earlier) that handles all

of this right out of the box. The only trick is the endpoints. In Microsoft’s

view, a VPN is intended for individual clients (think employees on the road)

to connect back to the office network, so Microsoft places the PPTP

endpoints on the client and a special remote access server program called

Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS), available on Server versions of

Windows (see Figure 21-44).

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