Re: pptp-based vpn

["martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net>]

David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes:
> I think there's a fourth field missing there.

Correct! Please read on.

> 
> Anyway, what I just did is: install pptp-linux (which pulls in ppp)
> and typed:
> # pptpsetup --create work --server ukvpn.ufreevpn.com --username 
> ufreevpn.com --password free --encrypt --start

Thank you! Thanks to your answer, I was able to duplicate what
you did.

	This system does not run a GUI desktop. It has enough RAM
but it runs a 600-MHZ Pentium and I suspect that gnome would be a
little slow. I also remember reading that ppptpsetup was a GUI
application so I just figured it wouldn't run, here.

	I do have a gnome system but it runs rather hot so I only
fire it up when needed and turn it off later as it makes a pretty
good heater in Winter and an even better one in Summer.

	I was going to run ppptpsetup there and see what it
generated, but I then discovered that ppptpsetup is actually on
this system that has no gnome so I just ran it from root and
figured the worst thing that would happen would be a message
about no X display but it ran, producing a message that it had
succeeded and was using the same two DNS's your running of the
script printed.

	In less than a second, it configured everything and I
appear to have a working VPN.

	Many thanks. It looks like my chap-secrets file was
totally wrong or at least it was missing that 4TH field where
there is now a * but the new vpn file named "work" it created
looks like I had gotten that part right.

	Many thanks.

Martin McCormick