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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AWS-hosted sites unreachable from my EC2-based VPN
So I setup a simple PPTP VPN on my EC2 Ubuntu instance. However, when I'm connected to that VPN from my laptop, I'm unable to access any AWS-hosted sites/services (times out). Everything else works.
I've tried accessing the same sites from the…
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PPTP works on Debian 6.0 but not Debian 5.0 or CentOS?
I installed PPTP successfully on a Debian 6.0 64-bit machine, and tried to mimic the installation on both a Debian 5.0 machine, and a CentOS machine. However, I get error codes on connecting with both of those latter machines. The error codes are:…
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PPTPd only routing to eth0
How do I enable routing to eth0 without having the ability to communicate amongst pptp clients? I know ip_forward = 1 makes routing of pptp clients possible, but i dont want communication under pptp clients.
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VPN server setup on a 2008 R2 Hyper-V VPS
I am renting a Windows 2008 R2 VPS (Hyper-V). It has 1 network adapter which has a public IP statically assigned.
I wish to allow incoming VPN connections, so that I can access SMB for a central file server.
I have setup RRAS, and VPN'ing in works…
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PPTP VPN monitoring web traffic URLs
I setup a PPTP VPN server (pptpd) on Ubuntu 10.04 and need the ability to monitor URLs that are being accessed via the web browser (80/443). I was thinking of utilizing a proxy like Squid, but wanted to be sure there wasn't something I could more…
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How to config 2 interface with pptp?
In this topic Which is the best OS for PPTP? :
server with this CPU and 2 Intel
PRO/1000 network adapters really
handles ~2 hour peak of 250MBit/s
internet traffic on one interface and
sends all this traffic encapsulated in
PPTP via…
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Can I host a VPN service on a shared Windows Host I already have?
I have a windows hosting plan with Plesk control panel, FTP, email and other popular options already found in common windows hosting plans. I want to know whether I can convert my hosting plan to a L2TP/IPSec or PPTP VPN service or not. Your answers…
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Windows 7 PPTP VPN problem
I'm currently using an win 7 as an network server at my home.
I've created some shared folders wich can be accessed easily from any pc on my network (win and mac computers)
recently I decided to turn on the win 7 pptp to access remotely to my server…
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Route through site-to-site VPN not working
I'm trying to set up a site-to-site VPN using RRAS on two 2K8r2 servers since yesterday. The connection is working at this point, but I can't get it to send traffic from one site to the other one.
Set up: the set up is the same on both sites: the…
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How to through PPTP?
Basically I have a PPTP server, and there are pptp end-point and a real network "behind" it with servers and I want to test the bandwidth from a server which is on the real network to the clients which connect over PPTP, so how does the server…
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Windows VPN with internet access
At work we have a Windows PPTP VPN server. I'm guessing it's an XP server, but I'm not sure and I'm not allowed to peek.
At home I have a Mac Mini running Snow Leopard. When I connect to the PPTP server at work, I can access all work machines, but…
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Windows Server 2008 PPTP connection disconnects at random times and will not reconnect
I'm running into an issue with a VPN over a PPTP (WAN Miniport) connection. There are two significant issues:
The connection will not stay active if we log off the machine. Currently we login via terminal server, connect the VPN and disconnect the…
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How do I set up routing for PPTP VPN on Windows Server 2008 R2?
I am trying to set up a remote access VPN server to enable our employees to connect to the office network and access resources on it. In addition, several of our production servers (not located at the office) may only be administered from the office…
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pptp cannot connect
I have a pptp server on ubuntu behind a router. From inside the network I can connect to pptp server, but from the internet I can not.
1723, 1792 port are forwarded in router.
Here is a full log:
http://d.pr/yxL2+
In PPTP FAQ:
Q. GRE:…
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Which is the best OS for PPTP?
I installed PPTPD on both Redhat and ubuntu, and I found that the ubuntu is more slow than Redhat by testing, that is to say, Need I do some network optimization with Ubuntu?
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