PPTP

Description

This indicates an attempt to use the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP).
PPTP is a method to create VPNs. A PPTP tunnel is created via TCP with a peer and this TCP connection is then used to create a GRE tunnel to the same peer. The GRE tunnel is then used to transfer PPP packets.

Affected Products

PPTP

Impact

Network resources consumption

Technology

Browser-Based, Network-Protocol, Client-Server, Peer-to-Peer, Cloud-Based, Mobile-Device

Behavior

• Tunneling
• Encrypted-Tunneling

References

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-Point_Tunneling_Protocol