[CLUE-Tech] Re: Has anyone VPNed into their employer's windows VPN?

[Jason S. Friedman]

I installed, and I connect, and I get this feedback from
the GUI:

Using interface ppp0
pptp-php-gtk: monitoring interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/16
CHAP authentication succeeded
local  IP address 10.105.30.1
remote IP address 63.85.19.5
pptp-php-gtk: pppd process exit status 0
pptp-php-gtk: routes added to remote networks
pptp-php-gtk: connected

Looks good.  I can ping 10.105.30.1.

This may sound silly, but now what?  If I were at the
office, I can use my Windows desktop to telnet to the
various *nix servers I need to reach.  I can't seem to do
that, even using the IP addresses rather than the names.

Also, I'm thinking I should see something from ifconfig
about the ppp0 device, but I don't:

$ ifconfig | egrep 'eth|ppp|inet'

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:22:87:B5:7B
          inet addr:192.168.0.200  Bcast:192.168.0.255 
Mask:255.255.255.0
eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:D0:B7:6C:62:B4
          inet addr:63.231.91.153  Bcast:63.231.91.159 
Mask:255.255.255.248
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

>
> I fairly recently went through this whole process, and
> found it to be
> amazingly fool proof!  They have the whole process steped
> out, and it
> works!  I've rarely found a site where everything works.
> (I did have to
> install some library, but apt took care of that issue)
> As for afterwords, the VPN works great!  It shows more
> information than
> does M$'s interface, which helped me diagnose a setup
> issue at my
> client's location.  I highly recommend this site and
> setup, so far
> nothing has gone amis due to dkms.  I also run VMWare,
> which is very
> picky about kernel modules, and the kernel itself, and it
> works just
> fine afterwords.
>
> Russ
> On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 10:01, Jason S. Friedman wrote:
>> Has anyone VPNed into their employer's windows VPN?
>>
>> I found this site:
>>
>> http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> and it seems reasonable enough, but wanted to see if
>> there
>> were better solutions.
>>
>> The one part of this solution that scared me was the
>> download of dkms (http://linux.dell.com/dkms/dkms.html)
>> for modifying my kernel modules.