{"id":6,"date":"2010-03-21T04:02:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T04:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.50.22\/index.php\/2010\/03\/21\/vpn\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:23:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:23:39","slug":"vpn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"VPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">POPTOP  VPN Server<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was hard finding any doco on installing this thing. I finally found  an old howto for FC7. From there I was able to derive at this:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Installation<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1) find the rmp<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"># yum list *pptpd*<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><tt>( in the past I had to # <em>rpm -Uvh  http:\/\/poptop.sourceforge.net\/yum\/stable\/fc8\/pptp-release-current.noarch.rpm<\/em> but I did not do that this time)<br \/>\n<\/tt><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">2)&nbsp; install pptp<\/span><tt><\/tt><\/p>\n<p>from the list yum install the package. In this case it was <em># yum install pptpd.i686<\/em><\/p>\n<p><tt> ( last time it was # <em>yum --enablerepo=poptop-stable install pptpd<\/em> )<br \/>\n<\/tt><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">3)  configure your server<\/span><\/p>\n<p><tt> edit <\/tt>\/etc\/ppp\/options.pptpd or use Webmin to put in the  server address and client address range.<\/p>\n<p>Webin:<br \/>\n1) Choose PPTP VPN server from the left menu<br \/>\n2) Under PPTP Server Options: Add IP address of your server and some address to allocate to the clients (use all inside IPs)<br \/>\n3) Under PPP Accounts: Create a new PPP account. Give it a user name and a password.<br \/>\n4)Click on Start PPTP server<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">4)  Configure your Firewall<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Open GRE (protocal 47) and TCP port 1723<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">5)  enable broadcast relay<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In order for a Lan game to see each other over VPN edit  \/etc\/pptpd.conf, add <em><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">bcrelay       eth1<\/span><\/em> (replace eth1 with the name of your internal  interface) This will      enable broadcast forwarding between the ppp  interfaces as well as the interface      you specify<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">6)encryption?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In \/etc\/ppp\/options-pptp, you can comment out the <em><span style=\"font-family:  Courier New,Courier,mono;\">mppe      required<\/span><\/em> option. Since  we will be playing games over this      VPN connection, encryption is  not necessary. I left the encryption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPTOP VPN Server It was hard finding any doco on installing this thing. I finally found an old howto for FC7. From there I was able to derive at this: Installation 1) find the rmp # yum list *pptpd* ( in the past I had to # rpm -Uvh http:\/\/poptop.sourceforge.net\/yum\/stable\/fc8\/pptp-release-current.noarch.rpm but I did not do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-figured-it-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}