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#742 VPN PPTP is not working
We have a very big provider Beeline (former Corbina) here in Russia.
They give access to external net (Internet) ONLY over Micro$oft-way VPN-PPTP: all I have is gateway address (smth like 10.177.48.10), name of a bunch of their vpn servers - "vpn.internet.beeline.ru", user name and password. With every connect this "vpn.internet.beeline.ru" returns a new IP, there are 10-15 servers and they dynamically change with every connect.
So if I setup RED interface as PPTP it simply doesn't work: "Connecting......Idle". (Additional PPTP settings: ->DHCP; Hostname: vpn.internet.beeline.ru; User Name, Password; Method: PAP or CHAP; DNS: Automatic)
And this is not something unexpected - PPTP setup even doesn't have needed fields to connect, but rather have other not unclear fields like "Additional PPTP settings -> Phonebook entry". I'm afraid this PPTP setup is really for PPOE and not actually PPTP VPN, is it?..
If I use DHCP on RED interface it shows right gw and IP but this way I cannot use PPTP from existing menu.
Also, there is a big local net in Beeline, which is accessible only with additional routes. There are no fields in design to write these routes too.
At the same time D-Link 524 makes this painlessly: I simply type server address (vpn.internet.beeline.ru), user name, password and that's all - connection is on. And there is a page where one can write additional routes.
Is there any hope that IpCOP will ever have this ugly but unfortunately the one possible for us micro$oft VPN PPTP working?.... I tried PPTP addon from ftp.shauff.de but it it was designed for previous IpCOP (1.14 and so) and it cannot be even installed.
Also I was very dissapointed not being able to find MC for IpCOP 1.96, without MC it becomes a real trouble to make a lot of search, edit and digger's work :-( When I tried to install toolchain to compile MC by myself, I discovered that toolchain contains other version of binutils (older than existing in ISO) so I couldn't install it, moreover - directory tree in toolchain differ from original on fresh install....
I build mc for ipcop 1.9.6, because it's a useful tool to jump in directories and make fast backups! It's a quick and dirty compilation, but it work's nice!
Download: http://www.it-connect-unix.de/copfilter/ipcop-v2/ipcop-v2.0-mc-4.6.2.tar.gz
karesmakro, thank you for mc addon!
I wonder why didn't you make more universal setup for vpn-pptp?
Some ISPs require static IP for RED, some, like in my case, DHCP and there is a need to have different setups.
It's not that complex, I picked up vpn-pptp by hand in standart way: created /etc/ppp/peers/beeline, etc/ppp/optons.bee, a little script which adds static routes and start vpn session (pppd call bee --nodetach ...etc). But all of this is working only when RED is setup as DHCP and there is no any options in IPCOP menu and no way to start or stop pptp from web-interface.