Can I route packets between PPTP clients?

Question

I hava one pptp gateway(192.168.1.1), and one pptp linux client(192.168.1.2), and one pptp windows

client(192.168.1.3), When gateway receives response packets of 192.168.1.3 , can i forward these

packets to 192.168.1.2?

What you're describing is not really routing if they're all on the same subnet. Can I ask what you're trying to accomplish? There's (likely) a different/better way to achieve what you're trying to do.
If the IPs have the same 192.168.1.0/24 prefix does not always mean they are in the same VLAN. You can have PPP interfaces with /32 prefixes.
@gravyface, that's my problem serverfault.com/questions/203324/…
gravyface: it is still be routing due to all packets would go over point-to-point channel in despite of what net mask assigned to peers.

Mircea Vutcovici · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-28 04:49:58Z

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It should be an option in the PPTP server to allow the clients to inter-communicate. I suggest to use a better/secure VPN solution like OpenVPN, etc.

answered Nov 28 '10 at 4:49

Mircea Vutcovici
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poige · Answer 2 · 2011-02-01 05:27:28Z

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You can't but your router could. :-) Just be sure to enable it doing so: sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

answered Feb 1 '11 at 5:27

poige
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