Pptpclient using linux

Use linux as pptpclient-Linux Enterprise Application-Linux server application information. The following is a detailed description. 1. to put it simply, if the firewall of your organization provides a VPN service based on the PPTP protocol, you can access internal machines through external "dialing, just like in a LAN. both Windows NT and Windows 2000 provide this service.

2. Required Software: pptp-linux-1.0.2.tar.gz (available in cernet)

3. Configuration
(1) Compile pptp-linux
(2) vi/etc/ppp/chap-secrets, add
Username * password
^ Username used for Logon ^ Host Name of the other party, just use * ^ Password
Note that if \ exists, it must be written \\
(3) pptp xxx. xxx user username
^ Pptp server address ^ username, which is the same as that in chap-secrets
(4) In this case, you can use ifconfig to see the ppp and the ip addresses of both sides of the ppp connection.
(5) route add-net 172.18.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 gw 172.18.0.3
^
Ip address of the peer in the ppp connection
Now you can access the address of 172.18.xxx.xxx.