Comments on: Setting up a pptp vpn server on Debian and Ubuntu

By: James

James — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:53:54 +0000

Great but how do you save changes when your finished?

By: Suhas

Suhas — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:53:39 +0000

The tutorial worked great, just one issue. When I connect with XP, how can configure the VPN connection to use Default Internet Connection’s DNS settings? I think the new VPN connection is trying to locate it’s own DNS and failing and hence loosing all the Internet.

Can you please help?

Thx

By: Davoud

Davoud — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:54:08 +0000

I can connect to my VPN server from Windows, but there’s no internet access. What is the problem?

By: screeble

screeble — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:26:06 +0000

Hi everybody,

Is there any way to share Internet via PPTP VPN server?

Thank you.

By: Amir Khalili

Amir Khalili — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:02:31 +0000

Dear dlarmeir,

Thanks for your useful How to .
Best wishes.

Amir Khalili

By: Lukas

Lukas — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:26:35 +0000

Hello there. Thanks for very nice PPTP VPN manual. I got just one question. IS it possible to monitor users traffic on VPN ? Give users quota for VPN ? Problem is on my server is users making too mutch traffic and i need to stop this. Thanks for any help. lu

By: sa144

sa144 — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:12:24 +0000

I have set up PPTP VPN server on ubuntu.
But accounts are open for concurrent simultaneous connections. means there can be many users using one account at the time.
i need to limit that to one user at the time.
anybody knows how it can be done?

By: dlarmeir

dlarmeir — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:39:28 +0000

Thanks for the tip!

By: Sylvain Kalache

Sylvain Kalache — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:05:47 +0000

To activate packet forwarding for IPv4 you have to execute this command
# sysctl -p
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1

Otherwise it’s not activate until you reboot.

By: Bjørn Idar Kristiansen

Bjørn Idar Kristiansen — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:45:51 +0000

Hi!

I’m using a mobile broadband as the internet connection for my VPN-tunnel.
The internet connection is up, and a ddclient is updating dyndns with the correct public IP-address.

But how should I configure my pptpd.conf (remote ip)?