Connecting to the Computer Science PPTP VPN server with Linux
Please note that once you connect to the CS network, you are exposing your machine to other machines in the network.
If
you
suspect
that your
machine is compromised or vulnerable in some way, please do not connect via vpn. Contact CRF.
There is a PPTP Client available for Linux and Unix, please refer to the following page to download and install the package from http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/#overview
After down loading and installing pptp for linux/unix do the following:
1. create the configuration file for your pptp tunnel in /etc/ppp/options.pptp add the following entry.
lock noauth nobsdcomp nodeflate
2. edit or create the file /etc/ppp/chap-secrets which will hold your user name and password.
WIN-CS\\username PPTP password *
3. create a file that will contain all of your connection settings and options in /etc/ppp/peers/ in this example
we use csvpn as the name of the
file. Once you have created the file add the following configuration settings.
pty "pptp $SERVER --nolaunchpppd"
name WIN-CS\\username
remotename PPTP
require-mppe-128
file /etc/ppp/options.pptp
ipparam csvpn
4. start the tunnel by issuing the command "pon":
pon csvpn
5. to disconnect from the vpn tunnel issue the command "poff"
poff csvpn