pptpconfig dotpup to setup PPTP VPN connection

[RobertB]

Do you mean you kept trying until you got a connection without "infinite upload", or did you find a way to make it quit failing in that particular way?

[HairyWill]

Sometimes my router gets confused if I have a tunnel open from one machine, then close the tunnel and soon after try and open a tunnel from a different machine. I would recommend rebooting the router just in case.

I presume you have replaced the busybox ip command with the full one.

I don't use pptpconfig anymore. Here is the script I run by hand, it works in several puppy versions providing I have installed ip. The routing sends all traffic via the tunnel

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#!/bin/sh
cp /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.orig
pptp 152.78.A.B user MYNAME password MYPASSWORD hide-password noauth debug require-mppe

IP=$(ifconfig  | grep 'inet addr' | egrep -v '127.0.0.1|P-t-P' | cut -f 2 -d ':' | cut -f 1 -d ' ')
route -n #(after pppd exit)
echo
sleep 1
ip route replace 152.78.A.B via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 src $IP
route del default
sleep 1
route -n
route add default dev ppp0
sleep 1
route -n #(after completion)

[lalope]

HairyWill, you're my new hero.

That script works exactly as advertised, I could connect to the VPN and see the servers.

Maybe I'll try some tweaking, but the important thing (the VPN!) is up and running.

Thanks a lot!

[paulh177]

The routing sends all traffic via the tunne

that's why i liked your pptpconfig, because you had sorted out the routing options so i could have the tunnel open and my vpn running but still use my browser, email etc accessing local machines and the rest of the internet transparently.
or have i misunderstood? (as so often with routing and ip ... )

paul

[HairyWill]

that's why i liked your pptpconfig

Just in case there is some misconception I didn't write it.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... p_id=33063