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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 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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Connect to server via VPN-tunnel to same server

Sorry, if title is unclear, here is the setup: There is machine A, running Linux. A is part of university network and has single network interface with real IP. But connections from outside of campus to port 22 (and some others) are blocked at…
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Mac OS X and Windows clients loses DNS from time to time using a PPTP Linux server

I have a PPTD server (pptpd) running on Debian and my clients are either Windows or Mac OS X machines. I also have an internal DNS hosted at the PPTP server since I want to resolve internal machines. It runs smoothly all the time, except for a few…
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Debian server + PPTP VPN - connection not working

I set up a Seagate DockStar with Debian Squeeze as a litte server in my home network. I'd like to access it from outside my own network now, so I need a VPN connection. BTW, I don't have a router with an integrated VPN server. I already have a…
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IPTABLES: routing VPN users through transparent Squid

I'm hoping someone can help me out - I've been tearing my hair out over this! I have pptpd and squid set up. I want give these users access to the internet, but would like to send http traffic through a squid proxy. Hopefully this rough diagram…
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smbd.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT

I'm running samba on a server, but I don't want samba directly exposed to the internet. The server is running pptpd, and I want samba to bind to the local ip of the pptpd, so samba will be accessible over the tunnel only and will be somewhat…
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ubuntu 9.04 pptp broken after a power failure

I have a small Ubuntu 9.04 router setup as a NAT box and a PPTP server. After a power failure everything except the PPTP server still works. A windows client gets to "registering your computer on the network" but then says Error 742: The remote…
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Iptables block access to IP for VPN clients

I want to block access to certain websites/IP's for all clients connected to VPN (pptpd or OpenVPN). This rule: iptables -A OUTPUT -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -d IP_address -j REJECT is working only locally. Server (ping test) can't…
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PPTP without default gateway

I have a Linux NAS file server with PPTP. I have several clients that use Windows only (no Linux, MacOS or mobile phones). I want all those clients to be able to connect to the NAS server only (no external resources), without installing any…
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cant connect to pptpd vpn

I am using Centos 7 with firewalld enabled on my server and currently i am not able to connect to my pptpd vpn Logs Dec 26 23:34:39 pptpd[28944]: CTRL: Client 39.55.196.181 control connection started Dec 26 23:34:39 pptpd[28944]: CTRL: Starting…
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FreeRadius authentication issue

Having an odd issue with pptp and freeradiuss on CentOS 6.4 VPSs. I have 1 VPS as the main freeradius server. 2 other VPS are used to connect to via pptp using the remote freeradius to authenticate. 1 VPS is working fine, but the other one is giving…
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Can't connect to mt PPTP VPN server

I was following this tutorial to configure a pptp connection between my centos 6 VPS and my fedora 22 workstation. There's only one thing I did different from that tutorial: I installed pptpd from the epel repository instead of the link provided. I…
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No gateway / internet connection with both OpenVPN an PPTPD on Debian Server

I tried setting up a VPN on my Debian 8.2 Server using OpenVPN which was working fine. After a few days I was not getting any internet connection anylonger using OpenVPN and I saw using ipconfig /all (Windows Client) that no gateway was assigned…
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iptables route PPTP VPN through polipo http proxy

I want to route http traffic of my local pptp server to use Polipo http_proxy. So i found this QA : IPTABLES: routing VPN users through transparent Squid but i test on my system & change iptables rule from 3128 to 8123 like this : iptables -t nat -A…
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PPTP VPN 778 Error in all OS without iOS

I deployed a PPTP VPN tunnel on my Bandwagonhost's VPS with Debian 7, When I use my phone(iOS),They all can worked well. But When I use my PC(Win7 or WinXP or Android),It noticed me that:778 Error. How Can I Work It Out? BTW: Running Debian7 Samba…
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