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The Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) is an obsolete, insecure VPN protocol. PPTP should not be used where privacy or confidentiality are desired.

A specification for PPTP was published as RFC 2637. The PPTP specification does not describe encryption or authentication features and relies on the PPP protocol being tunneled to implement security functionality.

Source: wikipedia

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pptpd not working externally on Ubuntu Server 11.10

I am trying to set up a pptpd vpn on our newly installed Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit server, but am not having success having a client connect via an iPhone to the VPN. Note that no clients have been able to connect to this VPN from outside of the network.…
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Linux PPTP VPN server using local account passwords?

Is there a way to configure the PPTP server under Ubuntu 10.04 to allow users to log in with their username/password from the local machine (the Ubuntu server, that is, not where they are connecting from)? I don't want to have to add a new username…
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IPTables/VPN forwarding

Goals: 1) allow VPN users to access internet without any restrictions 2) allow server itself to access internet, but using specified ports only (mail, web, remote access) Server config: 1) VPN (poptop/postgresql/Cake VPN billing) 2) iptables 3)…
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PPTPD with PAM authentication?

I need a VPN solution for my company. One requirement is to be able to use the built-in windows VPN client. We are running a Debian Etch server. I've managed to set up PPTPD but the authentication is based on the chap-secrets file. We already have…
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Restricting nginx website connection to VPN Users on the same server

My main aim is the following: Install a VPN server on a server, and a website on that server should be accessible only to users that are using the VPN on that same server. First, the two server case works. That is, I have two servers, A and B. The…
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Iptables: Selective PPTP VPN routing

I've been able to set up TomatoUSB firmware with Ipredator via PPTP, the configuration is as follows: However, I don't want to use Ipredator PPTP VPN for every machine on my network, how to only use PPTP VPN for one MAC/IP? Upon further…
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pptpd on Debian doesn't write any logs

I'm trying to set up PPTP server with Debian Squeeze. The problem is nothing is being written in the logs (neither in messages nor in debug nor in daemon.log) though debug and dump options are set. The only line I get after pptpd restart is: # tail…
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Can't reach hosts in same network as server via pptpd on ubuntu 10.4

I've installed pptpd on an ubuntu 10.4 box and configured it like this: localip: 192.168.1.11 (the pptpd server) remoteip: 192.168.1.150-199 I've also added a user and added the following line to /etc/rc.local: iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0…
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How to route all traffic through a VPN?

I executed an pppd command and i got the following output: local IP address 172.16.4.128 remote IP address 172.16.1.200 Committed PPP store Committed PPP store pptp_wait_input: Address added. previous interface setting (name: en0, address:…
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Configure ufw pptpd and dnsmasq on the same server

I've got a an ubuntu 14 server running both pptpd and dnsmasq. I'm having trouble configuring ufw to allow pptp clients to resolve their DNS queries using the local dnsmasq server. I've correctly configured both pptpd and dnsmasq (there are a few…
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More than 254 client IPs in PPTP (PPTPD)

I'm trying to setup my PPTP to allow more than 255 client connections. I have added the connections param in pptpd.conf to allow the connections but I do not know how to set the remoteip specification to allow more than 255 addresses. Currently I…
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Routing problems to certain domains with PPTPD VPN setup

We've been struggling with some kind of network/routing issue with a PPTPD based VPN where the clients can't access certain internet domains/ips through the VPN. As an example, the user can browse hxxp://google.com, but not hxxp://microsoft.com. The…
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Can't ping other machines at Linux VPN PPTP server's local lan from outside

Before anything else, hello guys, this is the first time I ask for something here so I hope someone can give me a hand, please look at the following network diagram: --------------------------------------------------------------- …
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change default PPTP TCP port

Is there a way to make pptpd listen for PPTP trafic on a TCP port other than the default 1723 port? I khow that PPTP uses more then just tcp/1723. It also uses GRE. it's not a problem. just how to change default PPTP TCP port. And how to configure…
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pptpd server does not route internet traffic?

I have set up a pptpd server on my computer and clients can connect to it successfully. I have enabled ip_forwarding in /etc/sysctl.conf and added the following rule to my iptables to masquerade the traffic. iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s…
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