Setup PPTP on Ubuntu

 Triviality  3 Responses »
Feb 122011
 

Searched online and here comes what I did:

  1. Install pptpd, ufw
  2. change /etc/pptpd.conf to enable localip and remoteip
  3. change /etc/ppp/chap-secrets to add user name and password
  4. change /etc/ppp/pptpd-options to enable ms-dns
  5. change sysctl.conf to set net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
  6. change /etc/default/ufw to set DEFAULT_FORWARD_POLICY=”ACCEPT”
  7. change /etc/ufw/before.rules 
    # nat Table rules
*nat
:POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]

# Allow forward traffic from eth0:0 to eth0
-A POSTROUTING -s 172.16.123.0/24 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE

COMMIT
  8. ufw allow TCP connection on port 47 and 1723 (surely you want to enable others if you run other services like HTTPd on this host as well)

pretty much this is what I have done, restart, and everything should be up and running.