How to set up Gaming VPN using PPTPD

TODO.

Current problem(s):

• Only one IPX connection is accepted

Server, Linux

Packing and authentication (except plain text) is not used because it eats bandwidth.

 apt-get install pptpd webmin-pptp ipx ipxripd

Webmin

Go to webmin, https://127.0.0.1:10000/

Go to Networking -> PPTP VPN Server

PPTP Server Options

Default values

PPP Options

• Lock PTY = NO
• Create proxy ARP = YES
• Require authentication = NEVER
• PAP Authentication = May be used
• CHAP authentication = May be used
• Unix authentication = NO

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• MS-CHAP Authentication = May be used
• MS-CHAP 2 Authentication = May be used
• Enable MPPE encryption = Cannot be used
• Use 40-bit MPPE encryption = Cannot be used
• Use 128-bit MPPE encryption = Cannot be used
• Enable stateful MPPE mode = Default (Disabled)

PPP Accounts

Does this even need explaining?

/etc/ppp/options

edit /etc/ppp/options search for IPX

 noipx

into this

 #noipx
 ipx
 ipx-network 4
 ipx-node 1:0
 ipx-routing 2
 ipx-router-name Linux_router
 ipxcp-accept-remote

/etc/ppp/pptpd-options

TODO.

/etc/pptpd.conf

TODO.

Debugging

• /var/log/syslog
• /proc/net/ipx/interface
• /proc/net/ipx/route
• /proc/net/ipx/socket

Client, Windows XP

• Install IPX
• Create VPN connection.

VPN Settings

Custom settings, check only PAP

VPN-type = PPTP-VPN

Negotiate multilink

TCP/IP = don't use gateway

Links

• [http://astrolog.offline.ee/linux/ppp-ipx.shtml Linux: IPX over PPP]

• [http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8250 poptop (pptpd) mail archive]

• [http://tipxd.sourceforge.net/ Tom's IPX Tunneling Daemon]

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