November 2007
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10.3. Installing Poptop on Fedora Linux
Problem
You have a gaggle of Windows clients on your LAN, and no available Windows servers or nice VPN routers, so you want to set up a Fedora Linux-based VPN server running Poptop to allow remote access to your LAN.
Solution
The easy way is to use Fedora 5 or newer. Then, you'll have kernels with MPPE support already, so you can get down to the business of installing and running your Poptop server.
Make sure you have MPPE support:
# modprobe ppp-compress-18 && echo success
successCheck your ppp version:
$ rpm -q ppp
ppp-2.4.4-1.fc6Oops. This won't work, and must be replaced with a 2.4.3 version. Remove it:
# yum remove pppThen, download and install the matching RPMs from Poptop's download site on Sourceforge.net (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=44827). The current releases are ppp-2.4.3-5 and pptpd-1.3.4.
Then, configure pptpd to start at boot in the usual way with chkconfig:
# chkconfig pptpd onNote that the pptpd daemon is controlled
with the usual /etc/init.d/pptpd
[start|stop|restart|status|condrestart] commands. A small
gotcha is only stop will completely
shut it down and close all sessions, so you must stop and start it for a complete restart.
Now, you're ready to move on to configuration.
Discussion
You must have the correct ppp version, or your pptp server will not work. At the time this was written, the documentation was a bit unclear on this, and different Linux distributions did not package pptp with a dependency ...
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