With forwarding enabled, all the server side settings are prepared.

You can either restart the system or issue this command for the setting to take affect: Line and change the parameter from 0 (disabled) to 1 (enabled): To achieve this we will be flipping the switch on the “forwarding” parameter of the system. Doing so allows the connecting client to “jump” through the VPN server, to all other devices on the network. While this step is optional and could be viewed as a security risk for the extremely paranoid, it is my opinion that not doing it defeats the purpose of even having a VPN connection into your network.īy enabling forwarding we make the entire network available to us when we connect and not just the VPN server itself. If you don’t want to grant yourself access to anything beyond the server, then you’re done on the server side. Restart the connection’s daemon for the settings to take affect: Where the IP used for the ms-dns directive is the DNS server for the local network your client will be connecting to and, again, it is your responsibility to adjust this to your network’s configuration.Īdd to it the authentication credentials for a user’s connection, in the following syntax: Where the “localip” is the address of the server, and the remoteip are the addresses that will be handed out to the clients, it is up to you to adjust these for your network’s requirements.Įdit the “/etc/ppp/pptpd-options” configuration file:Īppend to the end of the file, the following directives: You will see me use VIM as the editor program, this is just because I’m used to it… you may use any other editor that you’d like.Įdit the “/etc/nf” configuration file:

You will need to forward port 1723 from the internet to the server to enable the connection (not covered here).

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