[YLUG] VPN PPTP

[Patrick Dupre]

On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Roger Leigh wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 02:30:28PM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>> I am lost !
>> I have one machine Fedora 10 what I use to connect to the campus by
>> using VPN. nm-connection-editor let my add a VPN connection type
>> PPTP and every thing is OK.
>> On the other machine, also fedora 10, nm-connection-editor, I do not have
>> the option to add a connection of pptp type !! I only have the choice
>> between opennpv and cisco.
>>
>> What did I miss ?
>
> You probably need to install the package that provides that
> functionality.  On Debian:
>
> % apt-cache search pptp
> bcrelay - Broadcast relay daemon
> kvpnc - vpn clients frontend for KDE4
> network-manager-pptp - network management framework (PPTP plugin core)
> network-manager-pptp-gnome - network management framework (PPTP plugin GNOME GUI)
> pptp-linux - Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) Client
> pptpd - PoPToP Point to Point Tunneling Server
>
> So network-manager-pptp and network-manager-pptp-gnome would appear
> to be relevant to you.  I use pptp-linux which hooks into the pppd.
> The package names may be slightly different on Fedora, but I'm
> sure it's equally simple to find the appropriate package name.
>
OK,

On fedora, it requires: NetworkManager-pptp

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