[KLUG Members] PPTP.

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Thu Oct 21 12:55:07 EDT 2004


> > > Also, the default route on XP gets set to the VPN IP.  Everything works
> > > OK, but it seems like a terrible waste of bandwidth on the server end
> > > since all traffic, including that to the Internet, gets proxy'ed though
> > > the remote pptp server.  Any way to make Internet traffic skip the VPN?
> > Yes, you need to uncheck the 'use this as default route' check box.
> Are you using proxyarp or masquerading on your server end?
> Seems like that setting would have problems with masquerading.
> Also, what's the Linux command (and params) you use to connect 
> as a client?

pptp vpn.mormail.com call morrison-vpn

where vpn.mormail.com is a hostname and morrison-vpn is a PPP config
file in /etc/ppp/peers (everything after the hostname is passed by pptp
to its subordinate pppd process).



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