Questions tagged [pptp]

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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Network remapping with iptables and PPTP VPN

I have two different networks: Home network 192.168.1.0/24 A - Home PC (192.168.1.100) B - Home Router (192.168.1.1 lan ip - x.x.x.x public ip) Office network 192.168.1.0/24 C - File Server (192.168.1.200) D - Office Router (192.168.1.1 lan ip…
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Accessing Server Remotely Without Forwarding Ports?

I'm setting up a Debian web server in my school that people need to be able to access outside of the school (i.e. website needs to be accessible from outside the local network). The problem is, they don't have port 80 open (or really any port except…
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Load-balancing PPTP connections

I'm trying to load balance two PPTP connections, connected to the same server. I use the following script, but there is no send and receive via PPTP connections. What part am I doing wrong? Are there better ways to acomplish this? I used also…
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Open ports for VPN users

I have been looking around for some time for answer to this, and have yet to find one. The issue that I am having is that users that are connected to the VPN cannot do the following, as examples: Connect to Xbox Live Run a web server through the…
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Vyatta Remote Access VPN firewall (PPTP)

I am using Vyatta Remote Access VPN (PPTP) and NAT for proxy. When pc-A and pc-B are connected to VPN, pc-A ipaddress is 192.168.10.10 and pc-B is…
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Automatic creation and setup of PPTP VPN

I have several (~75) users that need to setup a VPN connection to a RRAS server using PPTP. Now, I can manually create these connections no problem, but it's time consuming. I'd much rather email them a batch script, or something similar, and have…
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Centos does not open port/s after the rule/s are appended

So after some battling and struggling with the firewall, i see that I may be doing something or the firewall isnt responding correctly there is has a port filter that is blocking certain ports. by the way, I have combed the internet, posted on…
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PPTPD not work when connecting from Internet

I have VPN server on Debian stable. People in LAN (gray network) use this server for access to internet (WAN). But I also want to use this VPN server as something like "proxy" (connect from internet, and browse the web). I can connect to server from…
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How to configure RRAS to route all traffic through squid proxy?

I have a VPN server up and running on a windows server 2003. All the users are able to connect to the server and NAT their IP (use server IP and internet). but my problem is government filtering on my windows server and i need a tunnel for my…
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l2tp/pptp + freeradius (accounting information only gets updated on disconnect)

I have a basic PPTP/L2TP setup that uses a remote freeradius server with mysql. Issue is that when a user gets connected to the vpn and as long as the user stays connected (could be hours), no accounting data is updated (bandwidth usage). Only on…
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Windows Server: can't connect to File&Print services through PPTP VPN

We have setup a simple VPN server with PPTP enabled and have forwarded correct PPTP 1723 port and GRE 47 on plain Windows Server 2008(NOT R2). Now when I am trying to connect from any VPN client ie: Windows 7 or XP it connects fine and I can PING…
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LAN to PPTP VPN bridge

I am pretty new to VPN and networking stuff so please bear with me if this seems a noob question. I have a cisco linksys e2500 router running on Tomato firmware. My situation is, I have set up a PPTP VPN server on the router and I am able to connect…
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Unable to setup PPTP VPN on SUSE Enterprise 11

I am new to Linux, however I will try to convey my question the best I can. Right now we are using Windows Server 2003 as a DHCP server. It also has PPTP VPN installed. Users can get to VPN outside of the office just fine. The public IP address of…
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How can i create a point to point connection?

We have a measurement campaign in a field, until now we had the following network structure The distance was 400m between the two points so the most easy solution was to use a Wifi pont to point bridge connection. The PC with the 192.168.0.10 IP…
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VPN and Lan visibility

I have enabled VPN pass-through and configured our router to forward pptp port (1723) data to go to our linux server running pppd and pptpd, this works, I can establish the connexion using my windows 7 laptop (I get a new I.P address and DNS and…
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