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Newer page: version 13 Last edited on Friday, July 7, 2006 11:50:09 am by AristotlePagaltzis
Older page: version 11 Last edited on Wednesday, November 12, 2003 4:17:37 pm by MichaelBordignon Revert
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 !Server setup 
  
 First, the installation and configuration of the server. This is a relatively simple matter. The package pptpd contains the poptop server in Debian, and the defaults are reasonable, save for adding your IP range to /etc/pptpd.conf. Also, Debian has defaults in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets which allow users with a /etc/passwd entry to authenticate with ppp. These didn't seem to work out of the box, for some reason, so you may need to manually add a user and password pair in there in the standard pap-secrets format (user * password * or something similar). 
  
-you need standard things like ppp_generic, ppp_async and slhc in your kernel. bsd_comp etc might be useful  
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- you will need ip_gre on your server!  
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-(put something about required modules here please? I just used Debian default kernel and it Just Worked).  
+You need standard things like ppp_generic, ppp_async and slhc in your kernel. bsd_comp etc might be useful and you will need ip_gre on your server! 
  
 (you may also want the [MPPE] patches to enable encryption of the PPTP tunnel) 
  
 If you have a firewall, you have to pinhole port 1723 TCP and GRE to the server running pptpd. 
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 and add to the "router ospf" section of ospfd.conf 
  redistribute static 
  
 Done. 
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