Dear all,
To access the news server at my university, I first have to log in to the VPN. In windows, this was easy, but I am finding myself spending more and more time in Slackware and less and less time on Windows.

Amongs the headaches is how do I go about connecting to the VPN on linux?

Any help would be useful. I suppose I can log back to windows to check the news server but...... It seems stupid, as that is all that I seem to be doing on Windows now that I've settled in to Slack.

Thanks in advanced =]

I use a vpn connection from my apartment to my work just about every day. Not too bad to set up and use. I originally started out with RedHat, then moved to Slackware around Christmas time so I installed all of the packages from the website using rpm2tgz <rpmname>. I could not however get the php frontend for slackware to work like it should. So after all of the setup I had to configure it command line by using the options in the config script /usr/sbin/pptp-command. The route commands can be tricky, so if you cant figure them out I can help you out at a later time when I am around my computer.

Here is the website for the pptpclient

Hope this helps!

Hi! I got this simillar problem about VPN... Here is the situation... I need to connect to a Linux PPTP server but over a LAN network.... How should i configure pptp and pppd in this case.... and i couldn't find the file /usr/sbin/pptp-command
When i try to connect everything seems to be ok... and with netstat i could see the connection between my comp. and the server's port 1723... but i can't open any website... or is it a routing problem :\
Any idea?

Thank you!

on my site http://www.nesware.net/adsl you can find info how to open a PPTP connection with this ADSL provider in the netherlands.. just make a few changes in the IP addresses your making the pptp connection to and the logon info

hi everyone!
i can't and i can't and i can't get this thing to work!!!....
here is what i get when i start the conection:
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root@host7:/etc/ppp# pppd call dtun debug dump logfd 2 nodetach
pppd options in effect:
debug # (from command line)
nodetach # (from command line)
logfd 2 # (from command line)
dump # (from command line)
noauth # (from /etc/ppp/options.pptp)
name zl7star # (from /etc/ppp/peers/dtun)
remotename PPTP # (from /etc/ppp/peers/dtun)
# (from /etc/ppp/options.pptp)
pty pptp 192.168.236.1 --nolaunchpppd # (from /etc/ppp/peers/dtun)
mru 1500 # (from /etc/ppp/options.pptp)
mtu 1500 # (from /etc/ppp/options.pptp)
ipparam dtun # (from /etc/ppp/peers/dtun)
using channel 12
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/2
sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x7efcb994> <pcomp> <accomp>]
rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap 81> <magic 0x56ec68b8> <pcomp> <accomp>]
sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x1 <auth chap MD5>]
rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x7efcb994> <pcomp> <accomp>]
rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap MD5> <magic 0x56ec68b8> <pcomp> <accomp>]
sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap MD5> <magic 0x56ec68b8> <pcomp> <accomp>]
rcvd [CHAP Challenge id=0x1 <9b96e81b9d98608a81563c23744a59990347>, name = "192.168.236.1"]
sent [CHAP Response id=0x1 <6fcd927875c220382fdd8aa41047179b>, name = "zl7star"]
rcvd [CHAP Success id=0x1 "Welcome to center."]
Remote message: Welcome to center.
sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 192.168.236.79> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 192.168.236.1> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0x1 <addr 192.168.236.1> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
rcvd [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
sent [CCP ConfAck id=0x1 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
rcvd [IPCP ConfNak id=0x1 <addr 10.10.50.138>]
sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x2 <addr 10.10.50.138> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
rcvd [CCP ConfAck id=0x1 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
Deflate (15) compression enabled
rcvd [IPCP ConfAck id=0x2 <addr 10.10.50.138> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
local IP address 10.10.50.138
remote IP address 192.168.236.1
Script /etc/ppp/ip-up started (pid 1092)
Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid 1092), status = 0x0
rcvd [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x2 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
sent [CCP ConfAck id=0x1 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x2 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
rcvd [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
sent [CCP ConfAck id=0x1 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x2 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
rcvd [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
sent [CCP ConfAck id=0x1 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x2 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
rcvd [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
sent [CCP ConfAck id=0x1 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x2 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
rcvd [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
sent [CCP ConfAck id=0x1 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x2 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
rcvd [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
sent [CCP ConfAck id=0x1 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x2 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
rcvd [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
sent [CCP ConfAck id=0x1 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x2 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
rcvd [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
sent [CCP ConfAck id=0x1 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x2 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
rcvd [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
sent [CCP ConfAck id=0x1 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x2 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
CCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Modem hangup
Script /etc/ppp/ip-down started (pid 1121)
Connection terminated.
Connect time 2.6 minutes.
Sent 103998024 bytes, received 207 bytes.
Waiting for 2 child processes...
script /etc/ppp/ip-down, pid 1121
script pptp 192.168.236.1 --nolaunchpppd, pid 1080
Script /etc/ppp/ip-down finished (pid 1121), status = 0x0
Script pptp 192.168.236.1 --nolaunchpppd finished (pid 1080), status = 0x0
root@host7:/etc/ppp#
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wow Gates1026. I've been trying to set this up for a long time now. If I can get this going, I'll never have to boot into Windows again. Can you in more detail describe all the steps you took?

Thanks so much,

Murray

Sure thing.......this is what I do

1.) Go to the source forge page that is linked to at the top of this post
2.) download the rpm ppp-2.4.2_cvs_20030610-1.i386.rpm
3.) # rpm2tgz ppp-2.4.2_cvs_20030610-1.i386.rpm
- install the package with installpkg
4.) Since I have an athlon processor, I always follow all of the kernel mod instructions
- http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ho...90-build.phtml (must have kernel source)
- # tar xfz kernelmod-0.7.1.tar.gz
# cd kernelmod
# ./kernelmod.sh
- # modprobe ppp-compress-18
- # depmod -a
- # modprobe ppp-compress-18
- download, convert to tgz and install pptp-linux-1.3.1-1.i386.rpm

5.) If you did all that correclty you should be able to fire up the config script at /usr/sbin/pptp-command

6.) You will need to setup the tunnel as you need with username and passwd.
- I found the route parts hard so here is what i used
- add -host 10.1.10.2 gw DEF_GW (this is the default gateway of the internal network that I am trying to connect to
- add -net 10.0.0.0/8 TUNNEL_DEV (this is the internal network subnet that I am connecting to.

I hope this helps. Let me know I can help any more