The Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) is a method for implementing virtual private networks. PPTP uses a control channel over TCP and a GRE tunnel operating to encapsulate PPP packets.
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VPN over PPTP on mac os sierra
Lately I discovered that connecting to a VPN via PPTP option has been removed in the new mac os - sierra.
I tried multiple application to do so - all failed.
How can I connect to my VPN over PPTP?
ps. I don't want to use L2TP because I don't have a…

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Create VPN on Android programmatically
I know this has been asked before, but most of them are 3 to 4 years ago with no definite answers. I would like to know if this is already possible as of 2015.

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Connect pptp vpn with android vpnservice
I'm trying to write an application that could connect to my VPN server with pptp protocol , as i was researching I found out that with android.net.vpnservice I could connect, but as I read some of documentation it was not clear how to connect to VPN…

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How do you connect to vpn using node.js
I am a newbie to node.js and looking for some example code or pointers on connecting through PPTP to a private virtual ip address using VPN connection. I have a node.js server running on aws that currently uses udp to connect to a public ip address.…

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Packet Sent but cannot Received Packets
I've been editing androids toyvpn sample project for vpn and i got this one for my sample app
I know there is something wrong/missing with my code because when i manually set up the vpn via android settings, there are packets Receive that's why…

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pptpsetup meet error: "EAP: unknown authentication type 26; Naking"
The OS is ubuntu 12.04-lts, when using pptpsetup to setup and initiate a VPN connection, it reports:
$sudo pptpsetup --create vpn --server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx --username xxx --password xxx --encrypt --start
Connect: ppp0 /dev/pts/1
EAP:…

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How to connect android Device to PPTP VPN
I have create a PPTP VPN server using ubuntu's guide .
Now I have:
My problem now is that my android phone could not connect to the pptp which I created. When i try to enter the username and password then hit connect , the only message i have is…

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golang exec.Command cause a lot of defunct processes
I'm using golang to call pppd and then kill it after a while. However I got a lot of defunct proccesses in this way.
This is how I run pppd
exec.Command("sh", "-c", "pppd call vpn").CombinedOutput()
This is how I kill it.
exec.Command("sh", "-c",…

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Establishing PPTP-connection in a Kubernetes POD
I'm trying to set up a pod running a pptp-client.
I want to access a single machine behind the VPN and this works fine locally , my docker container adds records to my localhost's routing table, all is well.
ip route add x.x.x.x dev ppp0
I am only…

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PPTP connection error: GRE: Bad checksum from pppd
I have setup a PPTP server on my own server. I follow this tutorial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-setup-your-own-vpn-with-pptp
But when I try to use my mobile phone or my PC to connect my PPTP server, it says PPTP server…

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How to make an vpn app using react native
I Searched a lot about how to make an l2tp or pptp vpn app using react-native
but i didn't find anything
anyone has solution?

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How to set username and password for a PPTP VpnService in Android?
I'm developing an Android app to establish a PPTP VPN connection to a server.
I've read some code samples and guides like this and also I've found that there are some classes like ToyVpn which implemented android VpnService. I think this samples are…

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Make PPTP VPN Connection Programmatically And Capture Packets
I use this Tutorial to Make PPTP VPN Connection Programmatically And Capture Packets
But Some thing is wrong, i think problem is when i want cature pockets in while loop
when i Connect to vpn by app and try to open site in browser it shows : You are…

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VPN PPTP - CTRL: PTY read or GRE write failed
I build my VPN server on digitocean using this script https://raw2.github.com/suyan/Scripts/master/Setup/pptp.sh
However I cannot connect to this VPN server using either my iPhone or Mac. Here is /var/log/syslog says:
Oct 31 18:44:29 VPN…

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How to create Application that AutoConnect To Vpn using PPTP android?
How can I connect to vpn:
using pptp android
to a given hostname
with username and password?
I have checked a lot of tutorials a lot of examples and a lot of Github projects but still I got no answer.
I have tried a lot of VPN Apps…
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