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Case[1154]: Setting up a PPTP VPN in Fedora (10)
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| Title: | Setting up a PPTP VPN in Fedora (10) |
| Number: | 1154 |
| Created: | 01/25/2009 14:06 |
| Created By: | bemowski |
| Page Views: | 6394 |
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| Approver: | unassigned |
| Keywords: | linux pptp fedora vpnc pptp gtk gtk+ fonts iso8859 |
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Detail
Fedora 10 does not include any sort of VPN GUI other than NetworkManager. Well - I don't like NetworkManager - especially for networks that are more static - ie, home wired networks with static IPs. But having VPN functionality is still important.
Setting up pptp from the command line can be daunting. There are many options - and as experienced as anyone may be with Linux, there are problems knowing all of the many potential options on a VPN.
So a GUI would be nice - but none is available in the default YUM repos. Much Googleing found me this:
vpnconfig is a sourceforge project. It looks like it went dormant back in 2006, but as of Jan 2009 - the client still seems to work, and there is actually a yum repo for it. Here's a yummy way to install it:
# rpm -Uvh http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/yum/stable/fc6/pptp-release-current.noarch.rpm
# yum --enablerepo=pptp-stable install pptpconfig
That's great. pptpconfig works on fedora 9 with that, but not on fedora 10. On fedora 10 all of the fonts show up as little boxes. I searched high and low, including running strace, google, etc. Nothing. It turns out the problem is related to GTK, GTK+ and/or GTK2.0 font configuration. It is NOT related to the fedora theme, etc. After an afternoon of trying to fix it, I finally found that it was missing X11 fonts. This is what ultimately fixed it:
# yum install xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859*
Now pptpconfig will help you configure your VPN.
Routing
You likely want to add some specific routes, but that's outside the scope of what I'm discussing here. One very typical route would be routing 10.0.0.0/8 to the tunnel.
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| anonymous |
01/14/2010
02:53 |
I managed to get relakks vpn connection working with plain network manager (Fedora 11) In the advanced tab for the VPN connection, select MMPE (point to point encryption) with all available. Click on allow stateful encryption, Click on allow bsd data compression, click on allow deflate data compression, click on use tcp header compression. Send PPP Echo packets unchecked. |
| anonymous |
06/13/2009
03:59 |
Thanks for this... working great in Fedora 11 64 bit too... just had to futz with the yum repo file and set the release server to 6. |
| anonymous |
05/18/2009
13:50 |
hi
is here any way to make my routings automatically , like windows VPN ? |
| anonymous |
03/05/2009
04:22 |
thank you!
It helped me configure my pptp connection. NetworkManager didn't work at all for me. I personally don't like NM either.
best!
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