PPTP conf help...

PPTP conf help...

[K.Senthil Kumar]

hi folks,

i'm new to linux. i want to setup a vpn server in my office.

i'm running fedora 4 with magnia file server (sg30). i have connected with internet through adsl (d-link 502t) router.

now my magnia server takes care of vpn, apache and other things. i want to replace magnia with pc as server. 

i tried to configure pptp server in my pc. in first attempt clients can connect with the pptp, in the following attempts it is saying an error 800, the server is not reachable. my pc is not directly connected to router, but thorugh magnia server as hub.

is pppoe needed to establish vpn server? how can i route it to my pc from router? can you please give me step by step details.

thanks in advance.

with luv
senthil

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Re: PPTP conf help...

[James Cameron]

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On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 01:32:40PM +0800, K.Senthil Kumar wrote:
> i'm new to linux. i want to setup a vpn server in my office.

While pppd is involved in a PPTP VPN, it isn't really inside the scope
of PPP and this mailing list.

You should contact the poptop-server@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list
for the pptpd project.  See http://poptop.org/ and the archives on
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=poptop-server

You should contact the pptpclient-devel@lists.sourcerfoge.net mailing
list for the pptp client project.  See http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/

> i tried to configure pptp server in my pc. in first attempt clients
> can connect with the pptp, in the following attempts it is saying an
> error 800, the server is not reachable. my pc is not directly
> connected to router, but thorugh magnia server as hub.

This does not sound unusual, I've heard of such problems.

> is pppoe needed to establish vpn server? 

No, not a PPTP VPN server.

> how can i route it to my pc from router?
> can you please give me step by step details.

Don't know.  Contact your router provider.

Try OpenVPN if you haven't already.  It has a few features that increase
the security of the VPN, features that PPTP can never have without
breaking backward compatibility.

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