Module implementing PPTP tunneling needed

ketema has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a question that I think might stretch the minds of you great PERL monks...Is it possible to establish a PPTP (or any other tunneling protocol) connection over HTTP (port 80) or any other port for that matter, but prefereably firewall friendly ones. Any suggestion would be appreciated, and if there is a magical PERL module that does this I will be again amazed.

Thanks in advance.

20041118 Edit by castaway: Changed title from 'PPTP'

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Re: Module implementing PPTP tunneling needed by davido (Cardinal) on Nov 17, 2004 at 18:07 UTC
Perl is the language, `perl` is the executable that compiles and interprets Perl, but PERL and P.E.R.L. are just misspellings. This nuance is captured in the saying, "Only `perl` can parse Perl." Searching http://search.cpan.org for `PPTP` turns up Fwctl::Services::pptp as the first item. CPAN searches usually take just a few seconds, and should always be the first place you look when you are thinking, "I wonder if a module exists that does xxxx?" The description for Fwctl::Services::pptp is: "This module will implements the rules to accept/block/account the PPTP tunnelling protocol. In order to be able to masquerade that protocol, you will need a kernel with the generic protocol masquerade patch applied." Next you'll need to figure out that part about needing "a kernel with the generic protocol masquerade patch applied." And I have no idea whether or not you can implement PPTP over HTTP. Dave	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Module implementing Module implementing PPTP tunneling needed tunneling needed by ketema (Scribe) on Nov 17, 2004 at 18:15 UTC
Ahh yes I forgot to mention...On windows. I'm not using any flavor of NIX. Using Activestate ppm, there is nothing returned for PPTP. Again, I know this is not neccessarily Perl related, but I figured I'd ask anyway because of the quality of the answers I've received in the past.	[reply]
Re^3: Module implementing PPTP tunneling needed by skx (Parson) on Nov 17, 2004 at 18:49 UTC
Half the reason that people give high quality answers here is because the site is very focussed on a single specific thing, perl in all its many uses. If people start dilluting the site with non-perl questions then the contributors who only enjoy perl things will drift away and everybody suffers. Google is your friend for non-perl queries. Steve --- steve.org.uk	[reply]
Re^3: Module implementing PPTP tunneling needed by BUU (Prior) on Nov 17, 2004 at 20:13 UTC
"PPM" is not the only, or even the best, way to search for modules, regardless of what operating system you are running. Check out cpan anyways.	[reply]