Point-To-Point Tunnelling Protocol is an insecure, obsolete networking protocol which exposes a layer 2 tunnel. It uses a TCP connection for control communications and a GRE tunnel for the actual data. It was historically used to create VPNs.
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Client VPN works, but only from certain locations (ISA/TMG)
I've done something very simple. Or so I thought...
I have setup VPN client access in TMG (or ISA, they're pretty alike). I created a group called VPN in AD, added that as allowed VPN users in TMG, setup a IP scope for VPN clients…
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Intermittently failing PPTP VPN connections
I'm two weeks in as the System Administrator at a midsize manufacturing company with executives and sales staff who make heavy use of remote access. From almost the day I arrived, I started getting complains about VPN performance problems. Here's…
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PPTP-Gateway routes icmp but no http
got a very strange behaviour with a Gentoo-based PPTP-Gateway here. I configured the VPN and the default routes - from the Gateway itself, the connections out to the VPN work great. But from the Clients, connected to the Router, I just can do pings…
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pptp server 2003 hands out gateway from nic not dhcp server
I have created a pptp RRAS server for a handful of clients to connect to. I would like them to use the servers default gateway (.1) for internet access. They are able to successfully connect (& see LAN) but it then cuts them off the internet. I…
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How to enable (disable) PPTP multi login (of a same account) on Linux?
I know there is duplicate-cn for OpenVPN. What's the similar setting in PPP based VPN?
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VPN Device behind router/firewall
ROUTER A: Peplink 310 serving as the gateway/router/firewall at one location.
ROUTER B: Linksys RV082 serving as the gateway/router/firewall at another location.
I want to VPN these two locations together.
The Peplink has a PPTP server and has…
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Is it possible to setup PPTP VPN connection on AWS EC2?
Is it possible to connect to AWS EC2 machine via my local PC using PPTP VPN connection?
Both machines are running Windows Server 201x, and I've enabled predefined routing windows firewall inbound rules for both of them.
I've also forwarded port 1723…
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Tunnel traffic between PPTP and OpenVPN
My office (office_network) uses PPTP VPN for remote employees. And it was OK before macOS Catalina release. Macos doesn't support PPTP anymore at all.
So, to get access to office_network network I decided to setup "vpn tunel" on my Ubuntu server…
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Ubuntu 16.04 - PPTP connecting but no internet
I purchased recently a VPS with Ubuntu 16.04 installed on it (OVH). I tried installing a pptp server on it but I have an issue with internet through the VPN.
I am able to connect to the server but I am not getting internet.
Here is my configuration…
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Windows Server 2016 - VPN timout on certain websites
First of all: I'm quite unexperienced with windows server and vpn so be patient and just tell me if I'm lacking important informations.
Expected setup:
I've got a Strato-Server (Windows Server 2016) and some client computers. I want the client…
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Mikrotik + Freeradius + Mikrotik-Address-List
I have Mikrotik which works like PPTP server and Freeradius for authentication and authorization.
How to assign PPTP user's IP or name in Freeradius (user1 = 10.11.1.145 in my case) with Mikrotik's firewall group?
I need all this stuff because…
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Setting up a VPN client connection in CentOS 7
I have to connect remotely from client on CentOS to VPN server, hosted on Windows.
What have been done:
Installed packages yum install ppp pptp
Contents of /etc/ppp/peers/harkiv_vpn
# pty "pptp xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx --nolaunchpppd" # using IP address
pty…
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Redirecting OpenVPN traffic to Burp Suite
I have a Linux Mint VM that I spun up as a transparent proxy for iOS devices. My intention is to tunnel all traffic from the iOS device through the VM and intercept it with Burp Suite, as an application I'm analyzing does not respect system proxy…
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How do I get a PPTP server to have a static IP address per client?
I have an Ubuntu 16.04 server running a PPTP server.
The server is running fine, the pptp.conf file has the following:
localip 10.1.1.2
remoteip 10.1.1.3-252
The chap-secrets file is setup to give one of the remote ip's per user, this all works…
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L2TP VPN http traffic blocked
I've got a VPN L2TP/IPsec server behind a NAT-T device. I had issues with connecting windows clients to the server but that was resolved via adding a registry entry "AssumeUDPEncapsulationContextOnSendRule". As per this link.
The next issue is that…
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