Connecting to an MS VPN from a laptop running debian etch.

[William Muriithi]

Colins,

> It turns out that all I needed to do to open the tunnel was add
> "refuse-eap" to the "/etc/ppp/options.pptp" file. However, that did
> not open a route to the remote network and ARP traffic (or, I assume,
> IP traffic) was not forwarded. This showed up as not being able to
> "ping" hosts on the remote network. To solve this issue, I had to
> create a file, "/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/vpnroute" file containing:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> if [ "${PPP_IPPARAM}" = "to-work" ]; then
>   route add -net  <network IP address> netmask 255.255.255.0 dev ppp0
> fi
> Now I have a fully working VPN (I think).
>
Thank you for updating us. Did you ever come across a way of using
L2TP over IPSEC from Linux? Most organization using Window VPN tend to
use L2TP over IPSEC as pptp is inherently very weak securitywise

That being said, thank you again. May come handy some day.

Regards,

William
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