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Segmentation Fault?!

I was trying to cheat those IE only website with general.useragent.override.
Seems that Java VM is the only one picking this up and crashed itself.

Remove that setting, everything back to normal. Sigh.

After one day's frustration, it turns out that, simple solution for PPTP client behind a NetScreen firewall to get through is,

Configure an IP pool for NAT with fix-port, which means no port translations. This way can make sure "IP 47" passthrough, or else they will drop.

Is there a better way?

Don't know since when and who decided we should use famous scientist to name our systems. Anyway a list of names in case I need them one day.

Pierre de Fermat
John Wallis
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Joseph Louis Largrange

Sometime, not so important systems named after a car model,

Passat