2008/4/22 <tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> I am attempting to set up a VPN. Here are the two machines:
>
>
> Server: In public internet. IP address 69.93.89.74 (NOT its real IP
> address. I changed here for securioty reasons).
> Is on public network, but does NOT have second ethernet card on
> 192 network (YET).
>
>
> Client: 192.168.5.100 (local machine) but can get out to the public network.
>
> I am doing some experiments first. The end goal is to have the server also
> on the 192 network, and to use the server
> from home to get into the 192 network.
>
> Right now I am using pptpconfig. On the server I set this
>
> # (Recommended)
> localip 192.168.0.1
> remoteip 192.168.0.234-238,192.168.0.245
>
> When I use pptp from the client to the server, everything connects. I
> cannot really test it this way since the client can
> already access the outside internet.
>
> What I did on the server was use NAT to translate something like 7.7.7.7 to
> some address on the public network where I can ssh.
> I did an ssh -l tony 7.7.7.7 to verify that it was correctly translated,
> which it was.
>
> Then on the client I added a route 7.7.7.7/32 (and I tried numbers other
> than 32) to go through my ppp0. So theoretically, on
> the client I should also be able to ssh -l tony 7.7.7.7 but when I tried
> that it didn't do anything.
>
> Will the client not recognize nat?
>
> Another question. I also got this message: pptpconfig: usepeerdns was
> set, but /{var/run,etc}/ppp/resolv.conf was not readable
> I edited /var/run/ppp/resolv.conf (/etc/resolv.conf is symbolic link to it)
> and added what was on the server. The first time afterwards
> I tried to ppp to the server, I did not get that message and I did get a
> message about resolv.conf being replaced. But the next
> time I tried, I got pptpconfig: usepeerdns was set, but
> /{var/run,etc}/ppp/resolv.conf was not readable again.
> So I am not sure I got that right.
>
> Is there anyway to test this ppp while I am still waiting for the second
> ethernet connection? (When I get the second connection I will first
> put it on our 10.0.0.0/8 network which is not on the client, so I can test
> it that way).
Maybe you should try to pose your question in the PPTP Client mailing list:
http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/contact.phtml
Paul
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