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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 do I get Ubuntu to pick up proper DNS routes over PPTP?

So here is my scenario. I have setup an Ubuntu 14.04 PPTP server setup at a remote site and it is working just fine. I can connect clients remotely via Linux & Windows. I can also ssh and RDP to internal clients on that remote network just fine.…
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Allow PPTPD VPN clients to communicate with one another

I have an Ubuntu server on the net, I setup PPTPD on said server because I was experiencing a problem I VPN might solve. At my home address I have my Desktop, and I would like to access its resources remotely, but my network is managed by the owner…
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Is it possible to run pptpd with certificates and is it recommend?

To secure my internet experience, I want to set up a vpn on a on-demand way using amazon AWS EC2. My primary client is running with windows 7 professional. (Maybe further clients will be my android phone and a fedora netbook.) The VPN should be a…
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VPN client to client port forwarding

I have an EC2 Amazon instance running a vpn server with 192.168.240.1-9 ip range. I can connect my Macbook to this VPN (using system pref.) and a Raspberry Pi, using this command line: sudo pptpsetup --create vpnec2 --server ip_to_my_EC2 --username…
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Remote IP for pptpd server

I'm trying to set up a VPN server with pptpd, and I'm having trouble determining what range of IP addresses I should pass to it's remoteip configuration option. I can connect just fine to the VPN, but when I try to use the connection to make…
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pptpd mostly works, but strange internet/dns behavior

I'm running Centos 6.4, and I got pptpd working, for the most part. I am connecting from a Windows 7 machine, and once connected I can access all the intranet sites as well as sites that are already open, or have been opened recently, like…
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PPTP server remote IP assignment causing problems

Our PPTP vpn server (Ubuntu) is working as it's supposed to, but because of the way it assigns remote IP addresses it's causing some problems with our other software. Example: machine A joins the VPN and is assigned the address 172.16.0.100, and…
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Ensure PPTP / OpenVPN clients cannot interact with each other?

How can one ensure that PPTP / OpenVPN will not allow clients connected to the tunnels to be able to interact with each others? I never enabled bridging and enabled the following in iptables iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.8.0.0/24 -o eth0 -j…
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How to disconnect pptp client?

How to disconnect pptp client connected to Cent OS 6.2 server from the server side ? ifdown ppp0 doesn't work.
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How to forward gateway requests for a subnet through another connection under Linux

I have a Debian machine acting as a DHCP server/NAT, connected via PPTP to another machine,connected to a subnet 10.0.0.0. How do I configure it so requests from clients on this machine for the 10.0.0.0 subnet are forwarded over the PPTP…
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problems connecting to VPN server on Raspberry Pi (Debian)

I have installed pptpd on my Raspberry Pi box (it's Debian-based for those who don't know), it's running but not working properly - I can't connect. here's interesting log - me trying to connect: pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cat /var/log/syslog | grep pptpd…
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PPTP linux server - Linux clients ok - Windows client can't connect to some web servers

I have one mysterious problem with our VPN office server. I have installed PPTP server on Debin 6 Squeeze and enabled forwardind, because I need to connect to some servers with our office IP address. Everything works like a charm when I am…
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Fedora 15: em1 recently dissapeared and hostapd no longer serves internet to wirelessly connected devices

I have a laptop running hostapd, phpd, and mysql. This laptop uses an Ethernet connection to connect to the internet and acts as a wireless access point for my workplace's wifi devices. After installing some software and reconnecting my Ethernet…
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One way traffic PPTPD Server / No Internet Access

I just set up a pptp server on Debian Linux yesterday by following this guide: http://poptop.sourceforge.net/dox/debian-howto.phtml When I tried to connect to the server using both XP and iOS, the client successfully connects to the PPTP server,…
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PPTPd: 'initial packet length 4930 outside (0 - 220)'

I got home today and was greeted by a pile of emails from logcheck, informing that pptpd was upset. Here is a snippet: Jun 26 20:02:37 lazarus pptpd[3060]: MGR: initial packet length 4930 outside (0 - 220) Jun 26 20:02:43 lazarus pptpd[3060]: MGR:…
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