Re: Poptop-server Digest, Vol 46, Issue 1

The problem was, I couldn't use ssh. Or did I just need to use a 
different port than the default 22? Anyway, the school year is over, so 
its not useful to me anymore. Thank you though.

Aaron Epstein

On 6/4/2010 4:39 AM, [email protected] wrote:
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>     1. Re: Novice in search of assistance with first vpn (Phillip Davis)
>     2. Re: Novice in search of assistance with first vpn
>        (Per Qvindesland)
>     3. Odd iptables issue (Phillip Davis)
>     4. Re: Odd iptables issue (Phillip Davis)
>     5.  remote ip pool (saju George)
>     6. Re: remote ip pool (James Cameron)
>     7. Linux PPTP server disconnects (gilad)
>     8. Re: Linux PPTP server disconnects (James Cameron)
>     9. Re: Linux PPTP server disconnects (gilad)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:30:49 -0600
> From: Phillip Davis<[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Poptop-server] Novice in search of assistance with first
> 	vpn
> To: [email protected]
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> Actually, ssh is much easier for tunneling data through some firewall,
> if the allow the outbound access.  You can tunnel and port forward data
> through ssh.  Setup a proxy server on the other end, and point to it...
> But, you can use pptpd to do it.  If that is too hard, then the ssh
> route would be a bit easier, but is outside the list here.
>
> ~Phil
>
>
> On 04/23/2010 04:09 PM, Aaron Epstein wrote:
>    
>> Greetings Poptop community,
>>
>> I have become interested in setting up a vpn when I found that it
>> could be used to bypass a particularly evil monitoring service setup
>> by my school.  I'd like to be able to connect to my home network from
>> school and use my home internet connection to access whatever I want,
>> like ssh for example. I'd like to use pptp because its the easiest to
>> connect to from windows machines.
>>
>> I began here (I have fedora 12):
>> http://poptop.sourceforge.net/dox/redhat-howto.phtml
>> but it started going over my head at step 4.
>>
>> Would anyone be willing to point me to a quick overview for the
>> configure step and how to make sure that I can share internet as
>> described.
>>
>> I'd be willing to write a beginners guide once I know what to do.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Aaron Epstein
>>
>>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:43:50 +0100
> From: Per Qvindesland<[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Poptop-server] Novice in search of assistance with first
> 	vpn
> To: Aaron Epstein<[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Message-ID:<1272062630.14717.49.camel@per>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
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> Hi
>
> Perhaps you may find this how to more easier to follow:
> http://thuannvn.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-setup-poptop-pptpd-vpn-server-on.html
>
> Do depending on your schools network config this might be a futile
> attempt for un-restricted Internet, the restrictions is there for a
> reason.
>
> Per
> On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 18:09 -0400, Aaron Epstein wrote:
>    
>> Greetings Poptop community,
>>
>> I have become interested in setting up a vpn when I found that it
>> could be used to bypass a particularly evil monitoring service setup
>> by my school.  I'd like to be able to connect to my home network from
>> school and use my home internet connection to access whatever I want,
>> like ssh for example. I'd like to use pptp because its the easiest to
>> connect to from windows machines.
>>
>> I began here (I have fedora 12):
>> http://poptop.sourceforge.net/dox/redhat-howto.phtml
>> but it started going over my head at step 4.
>>
>> Would anyone be willing to point me to a quick overview for the
>> configure step and how to make sure that I can share internet as
>> described.
>>
>> I'd be willing to write a beginners guide once I know what to do.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Aaron Epstein
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> _______________________________________________
>> Poptop-server mailing list
>> [email protected]
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/poptop-server
>>      
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:19:31 -0600
> From: Phillip Davis<[email protected]>
> Subject: [Poptop-server] Odd iptables issue
> To: [email protected]
> Message-ID:<[email protected]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> I know what must be the problem, but I can't find the source of the
> failure.  On the poptop server, I've got iptables set basically wide
> open now, but tried more restricted before.  I can see data going from
> ppp0 through eth1 to the work network hosts, and them replying ONLY when
> I look at eth1.  But on the same host, ppp0 still shows no reply
> packets... its like the data goes from vpn link, through ppp0 thru eth1
> to that lan, host replies, gets thru eth1, and then the iptables rules
> drop it when it tries to go back to ppp0... Why?  I'm sure there's soem
> simple rule I'm missing, but I can't for the life of me figure it out.
> I've even gone so far as to do:
>
> iptables -I INPUT -i ppp+ -j ACCEPT
>
> just to see if I could get it to work... and it doesn't.  I've tried:
>
> iptables -I OUTPUT -o ppp+ -j ACCEPT
>
> to no avail.
>
> Ideas?
>
> ~Phil
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:48:08 -0600
> From: Phillip Davis<[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Poptop-server] Odd iptables issue
> To: [email protected]
> Message-ID:<[email protected]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Well, I found one part of the failure... for some reason, iptables
> insinuates taht ppp+ is valid, but when I changed the rule to be ppp0 it
> seems to have solved the routing issues, because now ppp0 shows packets
> going back down stream, but they get lost again somewhere on this end.
> Making progress... ugh.
>
> ~Phil
>
>
> On 04/27/2010 02:19 PM, Phillip Davis wrote:
>    
>> I know what must be the problem, but I can't find the source of the
>> failure.  On the poptop server, I've got iptables set basically wide
>> open now, but tried more restricted before.  I can see data going from
>> ppp0 through eth1 to the work network hosts, and them replying ONLY when
>> I look at eth1.  But on the same host, ppp0 still shows no reply
>> packets... its like the data goes from vpn link, through ppp0 thru eth1
>> to that lan, host replies, gets thru eth1, and then the iptables rules
>> drop it when it tries to go back to ppp0... Why?  I'm sure there's soem
>> simple rule I'm missing, but I can't for the life of me figure it out.
>> I've even gone so far as to do:
>>
>> iptables -I INPUT -i ppp+ -j ACCEPT
>>
>> just to see if I could get it to work... and it doesn't.  I've tried:
>>
>> iptables -I OUTPUT -o ppp+ -j ACCEPT
>>
>> to no avail.
>>
>> Ideas?
>>
>> ~Phil
>>
>>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 22:57:55 -0700
> From: saju George<[email protected]>
> Subject: [Poptop-server]  remote ip pool
> To: [email protected]
> Message-ID:
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> how to configure different remoteip pool in single pptpd.conf
>
> Eg: remoteip 10.0.0.1-25,90.0.0.1-25 etc
>
> Is it possible
>
> Thanks
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> Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 16:12:23 +1000
> From: James Cameron<[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Poptop-server] remote ip pool
> To: saju George<[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
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> On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:57:55PM -0700, saju George wrote:
>    
>> how to configure different remoteip pool in single pptpd.conf
>> Eg: remoteip 10.0.0.1-25,90.0.0.1-25 etc
>> Is it possible
>>      
> man pptpd.conf
>
> ...
>
>         An ip-specification above (for the localip and remoteip tags) may be  a
>         list  of  IP  addresses  (for example 192.168.0.2,192.168.0.3), a range
>         (for example 192.168.0.1-254 or 192.168.0-255.2)  or  some combination
>         (for example 192.168.0.2,192.168.0.5-8).
>
> 10.0.0.1-25,90.0.0.1-25 would seem to comply.
>
>    


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