The Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) is a method for implementing virtual private networks. PPTP uses a control channel over TCP and a GRE tunnel operating to encapsulate PPP packets.
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Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP (Cent OS PPTP VPN)
I've installed pptpd on CentOS 7 with AWS EC2 and I can connect to vpn with windows client but I have no internet access while the server has full internet access. In pptpd log I noticed the error "Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy…

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Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP (PPTP VPN)
I've installed pptpd on ubuntu 18.04 and I can connect to vpn with android and windows client but I have no internet access while the server has full internet access. In pptpd log I noticed the error "Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy…

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SoftEther VPN PC-to-LAN on WinCE, without using Bridge
I need to connect from a client PC to a LAN, using a VPN thru a Windows Compact Embedded 7 Panel PC.
I'm using SoftEther and the server is hosted on an external VPS (I use this infrastructure to take advantage of hole punching).
I decided to use…

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How to create PPTP connection with Java?
I need to check what accounts from my huge list are still valid on VPN-server, but I haven't found any information on how to do it with Java language. How do I connect to PPTP-server using Java?
I created a socket with the server ip and PPTP-port,…

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How to programmatically create a PPTP VPN connection on macOS Sierra/High Sierra?
Apple removed high-level PPTP support in macOS Sierra from its network configuration system. However, the PPP internals are all still there, including /usr/sbin/pppd and /etc/ppp/.
How can I programmatically initiate a PPTP VPN connection on macOS…

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PPTP Android VPN Client Application without ROOT Access
i want to create a PPTP Android Client to just Create an intent to send data automatically in setting of Default VPN and create a profile with sended username password and hostname through PPTP and just connect
I Read this Link to create…

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multiple docker run pptp client on same host
I setup docker with pptp client to connect to pptp server followed by http://cyan.ly/blog/multiple-vpn-docker-2015
However, when I try to run more than one docker container, I got pptp failed. Only one docker container can connect to pptp server. It…

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Error running exec(). Command
I Try to connect PPTP VPN From Github Sample.
But there is some Errors occuarred :
Error running exec(). Command: [su] Working Directory: null Environment: [ANDROID_ROOT=/system, BOOTCLASSPATH_EX=/system/framework/mediatek-op.jar,…

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Raspberry Pi PPTP Port Opening
I configured PPTP on my Raspberry Pi with Wheezy image following the guide given in webpage:
http://www.raspberrypihelp.net/tutorials/21-pptp-vpn-server-raspberry-pi
On completion of the configuration all worked well.
I then installed MYSQL, PHP,…

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How to set permanent mtu size for ppp0
every time I connect to my VPN, I should run
sudo ifconfig ppp0 mtu 1300
How could I make it permanent?
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04

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Connecting PPTP-VPN in Linux [UBUNTU, Python]
In past I've connected to VPN via Linux in Windows perfectly with python by using the following code:
import win32ras
hdl, retcode = win32ras.Dial (None, None, (vpn_name, ip, "", username, password, ""), None) #changing 'ip' will connect to…

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DotRas error enumerating devices - RasException (Error code 1070)
Then trying to execute the following line:
ReadOnlyCollection list = RasDevice.GetDevices();
I get a very non-helpful RasException (Error code 1070).
This is also thrown when executing
RasDevice.GetDeviceByName(...);
I have ran the…

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Https connection time out since installing PPTP
I have absolutely no doubt that this is human error due to the fact I have no real clue what I am doing.
I recently installed pptp on my ubuntu 12.04 server so that I can vpn as the server.
However I have obviously open/closed the wrong…

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why a layer 2 tunneling protocol when we already have layer 3 tunneling protocol
In network, a tunnel is a logical connection between two nodes. In the tunnel, there are multiple routers that physically comprise the path. Hence the packets in a tunnel are essentially routed via IP. (correct me if I am wrong)
This makes sense to…

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VPN PPTP - GRE: Bad checksum from pppd
I just set up a PPTP server on Debian 7 and SOMETIMES I got a problem during the authentication. So I've checked the syslog and here's a short dump :
Mar 26 22:24:21 vps52953 pptpd[26709]: CTRL: Client 80.25.192.102 control connection started
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