Comments on: Linux configure point to point tunneling PPTP VPN client for Microsoft PPTP vpn server

By: syed sharik

syed sharik — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:53:06 +0000

hi friends i have some problem for inretnet I want install a net hub so how to install Please help me I will be thankfull

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:18:57 +0000

Also.. What is the proper NET and IFACE?

#!/bin/bash NET="10.0.0.0/8" # set me IFACE="ppp0" # set me #IFACE=$1 route add -net ${NET} dev ${IFACE}

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:21:30 +0000

No luck here. I have tried both commandline and gui on ubuntu jaunty and no luck. via the gui it says that I am connected to my work VPN, however i can not login to my machine or ping anything on the network.

Any ideas? I am at my wits end.

By: IrQ

IrQ — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:46:04 +0000

Users of KDE 4 can’t use gui tools to connect over pptp vpn. If anybody needed this feature, please register and vote for it.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174439

By: Ajinkya

Ajinkya — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:02:27 +0000

Please send me the ppt of following configuration

By: eric

eric — Sun, 24 May 2009 17:45:09 +0000

Hi,

I have small problem ,i already using ppptd and now running but i have ip still using DHCP (old ISP/IP Private) not from ip vpn (new ISP/IP Public) ,what cause this ?

i tried to ping from network-tools.com and the message is ” Timed out ” but i can ping the vpn gateway also got reply quickly.

log message :
May 24 12:28:30 cpe-134-112 pptp[15920]: anon log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:739]: Received Start Control Connection Reply
May 24 12:28:30 cpe-134-112 pptp[15920]: anon log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:773]: Client connection established.
May 24 12:28:31 cpe-134-112 pptp[15920]: anon log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]: Sent control packet type is 7 ‘Outgoing-Call-Request’
May 24 12:28:31 cpe-134-112 pptp[15920]: anon log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:858]: Received Outgoing Call Reply.
May 24 12:28:31 cpe-134-112 pptp[15920]: anon log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:897]: Outgoing call established (call ID 0, peer’s call ID 27914).
May 24 12:28:31 cpe-134-112 pppd[15906]: CHAP authentication succeeded
May 24 12:28:31 cpe-134-112 pppd[15906]: CCP terminated by peer (No compression negotiated)
May 24 12:28:31 cpe-134-112 pppd[15906]: Compression disabled by peer.
May 24 12:28:31 cpe-134-112 pppd[15906]: local IP address 202.147.201.119
May 24 12:28:31 cpe-134-112 pppd[15906]: remote IP address 202.147.205.1

Let me know about this..

thanks,

By: fvaw

fvaw — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:45:28 +0000

Could you please update the GUI settings for the Jaunty?

By: p sky

p sky — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:16:29 +0000

Very good explanation, but the repository appears not to be valid. I have not been able to find a new one, so I am in dependancy hell trying to get it to work. If anybody knows the door out let me know. :)

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:24:28 +0000

I know this is an old thread, but I followed these instructions and my VPN connection worked great. Then later on it stopped working and I couldn’t determine why for the longest time. I thought Firestarter may have been the culprit, so I uninstalled it. Didn’t help. Finally last night I uninstalled other vpn software I had loaded, but wasn’t using: OpenSwan, IKE and probably a couple others. And viola, my PPTP VPN connection began working again.

By: Igor Sotelo

Igor Sotelo — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:36:00 +0000

There is an OpenSource alternative to Microsoft PPTP Server, and is called PopTop. Runs on Linux, however works only with 128 bits encryption and MS CHAP v2 authentication that are the least insecure PPTP options.

Best Regards.

By: James West

James West — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:27:02 +0000

hello.
Thanks for the tutorial! worked great!

I have come across a problem though. The connection times out every 1000 minutes or so.

Does anyone have any ideas on what could be causing this?

Thanks!

By: Sandip Shah

Sandip Shah — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:16:49 +0000

Worked perfectly on my Ubuntu system.

Vivek – you can add a note in your excellent article – ‘10.0.0.0/8′ this is the network at the work place. For example the VPN server that I am trying to connect to is on the network ‘192.168.17.0/24′.

I just had to make that change to the config file – route-traffic – and everything worked fine.

By: Varghese M

Varghese M — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:24:35 +0000

Excellent article! I was able to setup this one without much difficulty on CentOS 5. Thanks a lot!

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:34:13 +0000

I’m using Arch Linux (all current), and it worked perfectly. Thanks for the help!

By: majid

majid — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:13:53 +0000

in my system there is no item by this name “pptp tunnel”

pls help me!!

By: stevo

stevo — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:00:56 +0000

It simply does not work
No default route set, no connection at all

I had to go back to WindowsXP

By: ramsam

ramsam — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:47:10 +0000

Hello !

I set up pptpd on ubuntu 6.10
i did manage to connect to the pptpd server
but I am having issues with my default gateways.
my clients are windows boxes.
I connect to the VPN and this is what i see in my
PPP adapter ramsam:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface
Physical Address. . . . . .:00-53-45-00-00-00
Dhcp Enabled. . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . : 192.168.1.50
Subnet Mask . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway . . . : 192.168.1.50
DNS Servers . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
4.2.2.2
How do I make sure my vpn clients get the default gateway of 192.168.1.1 and why is it taking the ipaddress assigned to it as the gw.
my DHCP runs on my router 192.168.1.1

By: Arulkumar

Arulkumar — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:33:51 +0000

My Lan is connected to internet using the Linux firewall and ADSL Modem.

My Lan Architecture:
vpnclient–>Linux–>ADSL MODEM–>net–>VPNSERVER

From ADSL modem asigned public IP.

Now My Question??

How I will connect my LAN(VPN client) to server.
Please help me out.

I will be thankfull
Arul

By: adnan

adnan — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 13:52:03 +0000

Hi,
I need to connect my linux centos4.4 server to VPN windows 2003. I tried to install pptpclient while I do not have apt-get and use
yum –enablerepo=pptp-stable install pptpconfig with independencies error

Error: Missing Dependency: libxml.so.1 is needed by package php4-pcntl-gtk
Error: Missing Dependency: libglade.so.0 is needed by package php4-pcntl-gtk

Please help me I will be thankfull
Regards
Adnan

By: Allen

Allen — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:15:34 +0000

Great guide! This helped me get beyond my problems using the GUI tools, which don’t report all the info. Also, the “fault tree” link on the pptpclient page is a good debugging resource.

I appreciate the command line tool approach, as that shows you more what is happening under the covers, and to test your config step by step.