Point to Point Transport Protocol server on Syneto manages tunnelled PPP connections encapsulated in GRE using the PPTP VPN protocol. PPTP works by sending a regular PPP session to the peer with the Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) protocol. A second session on TCP port 1723 is used to...

There are three configuration modes an administrator might choose based on her network plan. This section will present the three different ways to configure the PPTP connections. In every example below we assume that: eth0 - the external interface connected to internet eth2 - the...

A PPTP server is configured on Syneto UTM using the command line interface: [root@gw]# config pptp Usage: PPTP Server Control config pptp enable - Start PPTP server config pptp disable - Stop PPTP server config pptp show - Show parameters and...

Windows XP When using Windows XP, a client will have to create a new connection to Syneto using the new connection wizard. The client will need to know: The IP address of Syneto Her user name Her password Windows Server 2008 From "Network and Sharing Center" choose...

When troubleshooting a PPTP VPN connection it is always a good idea to watch  /var/log/daemon.log for information. Log messages for a successful operations will look like this: successful PPTP server startup: Nov 25 18:42:49 gw pptpd[28892]: MGR: Maximum of 100 connections reduced...