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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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How to stop pptpd even when there are active vpn client connections?

After issued command to stop pptpd, the pptpd won't stop until all the VPN client has disconnected. The following code shows pptpd is still running after issuing the stop command. ubuntu@ip-10-138-31-87:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/pptpd stop Stopping PPTP:…
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Bind Poptop (PPTPD) to a specific interface

I have a poptop pptpd running on a server with 16 public IP's I am getting clients to connect to (for example) eth1:8's IP (I also have pptpd set to listen on the address in /etc/pptpd.conf) the initial connection starts but the GRE packets start…
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How to use Ubuntu PPTPD as Gateway?

I just set up Poptop on our Ubuntu 10.04 server so we could use it as a VPN. I can connect to the LAN through PPTP but I can't use it a gateway (I needed to uncheck the "use default gateway on remote network" option on the Network Adapter properties…
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Apache rejects connection to phpmyadmin while connected to VPN on the same host?

For example: I have LAMP installed on a publicly accessible server with IP 160.x.x.x along with pptpd. When connected to pptpd to the same server, Google reports my IP as 160.x.x.x which verifies that I am connected to the VPN server and the remote…
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Centos 7 pptpd mtu size

i'm using pptpd on centos7 as PPTP VPN Server how can I change the MTU size on server side cause some users cannot connect to the server thanks
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Centos PPTP VPN server restirct user to a specific IP

I have a centos pptp vpn server configured to access my internal ip say 1) 10.XX.XX.21 2) 10.XX.XX.22 3) 10.XX.XX.23 4) 10.XX.XX.24 ..... n)10.XX.XX.n VPN is working fine with no issue . I would like to know if it is possible to restrict user…
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PPTPD VPN Can't connect to the internet

I'm running a Ubuntu 16.04 Server on a VMWare ESXI Server with its own public IP, I have setup a pptpd vpn server which works but only with connected devices. I can't connect to the internet with it however I can connect to the server hosting the…
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Cannot Connect to PPTP VPN

I set up a PPTP VPN server (insecure, I know, but this effort is primarily a learning experience) using PPTPD on a spare Ubuntu 15.10 desktop I had laying around, but am unable to connect to it from Linux or Windows. When I attempt to connect from…
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PPTP with restrictive access to local network for connecting clients

How can I restrict access to my local network for VPN-clients connecting to a VPN-server (PPTPD) located on my network? I would like clients to be able to connect to my linux node running a VPN server (PPTP) over the internet in order to access a…
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Centos 7 trying to make httpd website available only through pptp vpn

I have server with Centos 7 and pptpd, httpd installed. httpd works well and pptpd server has working connections so it works well too. Actually what I need is to make httpd site available only through pptp vpn. I've tried to use these answers but…
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How to tunnel UDP traffic with pptpd VPN?

I've set up a VPN on a Debian (7.8) server. On a Windows 8 machine, I can set up a VPN connection to the server and it works fine for TCP applications. Everything is going through the VPN. However, UDP applications don't work. They continue to go…
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Debug slow pptp connection in Ubuntu

I've unstable connection when using a VPN (pptpd), obviously it works, but sometimes is slow or not responding for a few minutes. Which log I should enable to debug the issue? e.g. due to pptpd? due to network timeout?
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What can I do if the VPN can be connected but not loading any traffic?

I set up a VPN with pptpd on my Linux server. For many months it works fine. But suddenly it failed. The VPN can be successfully connected but no traffic can come in. Is there anything I can try to debug this?
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Bridge PPTP VPN with local network

I have configured on my Ubuntu a VPN server using PPTPD. I can connect to it from outside of my LAN, I can use it's internet connection. But I cannot see my LAN clients (because the VPN and the LAN are on different networks). This is my…
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PPTPD not working on virtual machine running Kali Linux

I need to capture non-http traffic from my iPhone. Using a proxy will only capture port :80 and :443 traffic which will not work for me as the traffic I am trying to capture is not from either of these ports. I believe that if I have a VPN I will be…
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