{"id":21,"date":"2011-03-17T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cazenave.co.uk\/wp\/?p=21"},"modified":"2014-04-24T22:06:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T22:06:19","slug":"pptpd-installation-and-configuration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cazenave.co.uk\/pptpd-installation-and-configuration\/","title":{"rendered":"PPTPd installation and configuration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Setting up a PPTP server (aka VPN in Microsoft Windows operating systems) on Slackware 13.1 with the aid of SlackBuilds.org<\/a> (SBo) and sbopkg<\/a>. Most of this is lifted from here<\/a>, which was the most recent set of instructions I could find. Everything else dated from a few years ago, and that makes those documents about as useful as a chocolate teapot.<\/p>\n

Install pptpd<\/a> from SBo. Use sbopkg if you like, otherwise follow the instructions here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Once that’s complete, edit \/etc\/ppp\/chap-secrets with your favourite editor. I like vim, so:<\/p>\n

vim \/etc\/ppp\/chap-secrets<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Add a new username and password to log in:<\/p>\n

someusername pptpd somestrongpassword *<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Replace someusername<\/span> and somestrongpassword<\/span> with the username and password you wish to use to connect to your VPN.<\/p>\n

Now we need to tell pptpd how to handle the new connections’ IP addresses on the local network. Edit \/etc\/pptpd.conf with your favourite editor:<\/p>\n

vim \/etc\/pptpd.conf<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In \/etc\/pptpd.conf, add the following lines to give the remote machine an IP on the local network in the 192.168.111.0\/24 subnet:<\/p>\n

localip 192.168.111.1<\/span>
remoteip 192.168.111.234-238,192.168.111.245<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Moving on, edit \/etc\/ppp\/options.pptpd<\/p>\n

vim \/etc\/ppp\/options.pptpd<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In that file, replace ms-dns 192.168.1.1 and ms-dns 192.168.1.2
with Google’s DNS servers:<\/p>\n

ms-dns 8.8.8.8 <\/span>
ms-dns 8.8.4.4<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The final step is opening up port 1723 on your router and setting up dynamic dns to provide a more easily remembered address to connect to from your remote host.<\/p>\n

When all that’s done, launch pptpd as root and try connecting to your new PPTP\/VPN server.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I tested this from a different machine on a different network and was able to browse just fine through my PPTP server. Browsing to www.whatismyip.com<\/a> gave me my PPTP server IP address, so it worked just fine. What I need now is more bandwidth at home!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Setting up a PPTP server (aka VPN in Microsoft Windows operating systems) on Slackware 13.1 with the aid of SlackBuilds.org (SBo) and sbopkg. Most of this is lifted from here, which was the most recent set of instructions I could find. Everything else dated from a few years ago, and that makes those documents about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,55,54,58,57,56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cazenave.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cazenave.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cazenave.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cazenave.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cazenave.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cazenave.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cazenave.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cazenave.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cazenave.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}