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Routing and Remote Access Upgrade 3.0 for Microsoft Windows NT(r) 4.0 Server Release Notes
Please use this document to address questions which may arise during the
installation of this Routing and Remote Access Upgrade 3.0 for Microsoft
Windows NT 4.0 Server.
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Contents
- Information on Installation
- Security Features in this Upgrade
- Fixes and Features included from Hotfix Update 2.0
- Known Problems in the 2.0 Hotfix Update
- Fixes and Features included from Hotfix Update 1.0
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Information on Installation
This upgrade requires that you already have Routing and Remote Access
Service (RRAS) for Windows NT 4.0 Server installed on your system. Note that you must first apply the Windows NT 4.0 PPTP Upgrade before you apply the RRAS upgrade 3.0.
IMPORTANT:Do not to restart your computer between installations of the Windows NT PPTP upgrade and the RRAS upgrade.
For more information, please refer to the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
ARTICLE-ID: 189595
TITLE : PPTP Performance & Security Upgrade for WinNT 4.0 Release Notes
This release includes the features and fixes from both the Routing and
Remote Access Hotfix Update 1.0 and 2.0 releases and is packaged in an
auto-install format. Copy the Upgrade to a temporary directory, and
double-click the executable name or type the executable name
rrasfixi.exe
for x86, or
rrasfixa.exe for alpha at a command prompt to install.
The files can also be extracted from the Upgrade pack without installing
them. To do this, copy the Upgrade to a temporary directory, and type
rrasfixi /x or
rrasfixa /x at a command prompt.
After extracting the files, the Upgrade can be installed by typing
hotfix at a command prompt.
To uninstall this upgrade, extract the files to a directory using the
/x
command as mentioned above and then type
HOTFIX -Y
from the same directory you copied the files to.
Output of
HOTFIX -?:
HOTFIX [-y] [-f] [-n] [-z] [-q] [-m] [-l]
-y Perform uninstall (only with -m or -q)
-f Force apps closed at shutdown
-n Do not create uninstall directory
-z Do not reboot when update completes
-q Quiet Mode -- no user interface
-m Unattended mode
-l List installed hotfixes
Security Features in this Upgrade
This upgrade provides several RAS/PPTP security enhancements for the
Routing and Remote Access Upgrade for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Server. This
upgrade also includes the performance improvements and other fixes that
were included in previously released hotfixes.
- A new version of MSCHAP (MSCHAP V2) has been implemented for VPN
connections. This new protocol provides mutual authentication, stronger
initial data encryption keys, and different encryption keys for the
transmit and receive paths. To minimize the risk of password compromise
during MSCHAP exchanges, MSCHAP V2 drops support for the MSCHAP password
change V1, and will not transmit the LMHash encoding of the password.
For VPN connection requests, a Windows NT server offers MSCHAP V2
before offering the legacy MSCHAP. Updated Windows clients (all
platforms) accepts MSCHAP V2 when it is offered. This behavior
affects only VPN connections; dial-up connections are not affected.
- A new registry key, SecureVPN, has been defined to force use of MSCHAP
V2. When this variable is absent it has a default value of zero. When
set to one on a Windows NT server, this registry key causes the server
to drop any VPN connections that do not authenticate using MSCHAP V2.
This prevents legacy VPN clients from presenting their credentials
in an MSCHAP (or CHAP or PAP) exchange, and is a likely configuration
for networks that require a more secure authentication method for VPN
connections.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\RasMan\PPP
DWORD: SecureVPN
Value: 0x00000001 == force MSCHAP V2 for VPN connections
Value: 0x00000000 == do not force secure MSCHAP V2 (defaul
When set to one on a Windows NT 4.0 client, the SecureVPN registry key
forces the client to use MSCHAP V2 for all VPN (PPTP) connections.
Dial-up connections are not affected by this registry setting.
NOTE: Most users do not need to use the Secure VPN flag.
This flag should be used with care because it affects the
behavior of all VPN connections from a client. In general, the
required use of MSCHAP V2 can be enforced more easily on the server.
- This release also provides a registry variable, UseLmPassword, which can
be set to prevent clients from sending the LM response to a legacy
MSCHAP challenge or in an MSCHAP change password exchange. When this
variable is absent it has a default value of one, allowing use of the LM
response (in order to maintain compatibility with legacy systems).
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\RasMan\PPP\Chap
DWORD: UseLmPassword
Value: 0x00000001 == send LMHash of the password (default)
Value: 0x00000000 == do not send LMHash of the passwo
Setting this variable to zero on a server causes the server to drop
any connection request which uses the LM response in an MSCHAP exchange.
Setting this variable to zero on a client prevents the client from
using LM responses in MSCHAP exchanges. This variable affects both
dial-up and VPN connections.
NOTE: Most users do not need to use this registry variable.
The new secure mode MSCHAP V2 will not send the LMHash response, so
this registry value is most useful when connecting to older access
servers which use the original MSCHAP.
- Other fixes in this upgrade:
Two-way authentication with Demand-Dial Interfaces has been corrected in
this upgrade.
Fixes and Features included from Hotfix Update 2.0
NT Issues Performance Issues
- This release includes an enhancement to TCP/IP that improves the performance of TCP-based applications over high latency and networks that experience high packet loss, such as the Internet.
Routing Issues
- Added new Demand dial filters. You can now keep demand dial interfaces from dialing by setting filters using the Routemon.exe command with a new "Filtertype= Dial" option. The new syntax for this is the same for setting Input and Output filters using Routemon.exe, and can be seen by typing routemon ip set filter /? at a command prompt.
The following is an example of the syntax used to prevent a demand dial
interface from dialing:
C:\>routemon ip add filter myremoterouter dial 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 any
C:\>routemon ip set filter myremoterouter dial forward
NOTE: The first example above is one line; it has been wrapped for readability.
For more information on using the Routemon.exe command to set filters,
please see the Routing and Remote Access Administrator's Guide.
- Added the capability to filter fragmented IP packets. Two registry keys control this functionality.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\IPFilterDriver\Paramete
DWORD: EnableFragmentChecking
Value: 0x00000001 == enables fragment checks
Value: 0x00000000 == disables fragment checks (defaul
DWORD: DefaultForwardFragments
Value: 0x00000001 == filterdriver forwards fragments (default)
Value: 0x00000000 == filterdriver drops fragments if they don't match
a previous head - Changes were made to the Router's Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) client to resolve a duplicate Acct-Session-Id accounting problem, as well as an issue that caused the reversal of the Framed-IP-Address returned from a RADIUS server. In addition, the RADIUS client has been enhanced to now support the transmission of the NAS-Port-Type and Acct-Session-Time attributes.
- Resolved issue that used to cause an Access Violation notice when adding a Virtual Interface right after configuring an Area under OSPF routing.
- Adjusted the RIP Authentication type to 2 instead of 1, per RFC 1388.
NOTE: This upgrade must be applied to all Routing and Remote Access routers if you are using RIP2 authentication.
- Resolved issue which could cause Mprouter to stop responding when doing an ipconfig /release
- Made an improvement that ensures that periodic RIP route updates resumes each time a demand-dial interface is reactivated.
Known Problems in the 2.0 Hotfix Update
- Although there is a checkbox in the Global IP Config dialog to enable/disable filtering, at this time the only functionality it has is to visually show you if any filters have been configured on your interface(s). Regardless, the filter driver is always enabled. In order to disable filtering on an interface, you must use the per interface option in the Interface IP Config dialog.
- Even though the "Filtertype= Dial" option has been properly configured for a demand dial interface using Routemon.exe, it may still be
possible for that interface to dial. This only occurs if you are
pinging from the command line of the Routing and RAS server in which the
demand dial interface is configured.
Fixes and Features included from Hotfix Update 1.0
New Features Added in Hotfix 1.0
- Allowing PPP clients to connect without authentication
This can be accomplished by altering the default registry key as shown:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rasman\P
DWORD: ForceEncryptedPassword
Value: 0x00000003 == allows the server to accept incoming PPP clients
without authenticatio - Using MS-CHAP with RADIUS authentication
In order to enable MS-CHAP with RADIUS authentication, you must add a
registry value:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rasman\PPP\CH
DWORD: OfferMSCHAP
Value: 0x00000001 == Once this is enabled every incoming PPP
connection will be offered MS-CHAP, and MS-CHAP
will be used to authenticate each PPP user
against the RADIUS server that your RAS server
is usin
List of Issues Fixed in Hotfix Update 1.0
All bug fixes contained in hotfix 1.0 are listed below. You can query the
Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) to find an article about a specific bug by
using the KB Q
xxxxxx number that is assigned to the bug. The Microsoft Knowledge Base can be located at the following Microsoft Web site at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/support.
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| 172290 | Routing and Remote Access "Out of Buffers" Event Logs |
| 176689 | RRAS Requires hotfix when Using Proxy 2.0 |
| 173533 | WinNT Radius Client Sends Incomplete Accounting Information |
| 176506 | Radius Accounting Only Logs One Entry for Multilink Client |
| 173532 | Radius Authentication Causes Access Violation in Mprouter.exe |
| 172512 | Routing and Remote Access Event ID 20100 |
| 176502 | RAS Authentication Rechallenge Resets Compression Flag |
| 176209 | RAS or RRAS Server Fails to Answer Incoming Calls |
| 167038 | RAS Clients Run Winsock and RPC Applications Slowly |
| 171061 | RIP Does Not Advertise Zero Subnets |
| 160517 | RRAS May Decrement Local Static Route Metric |
| 176082 | RRAS Server Updates Link State Database but not Route Table |
| 162834 | RRAS Stops Routing After Encountering Zero Checksum |
| 104296 | RRAS Uses Larger MTU Than Other OSPF Routers |
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