Mikrotik PPTP Remote Access VPN
Mikrotik PPTP Remote Access VPN
Mikrotik PPTP Remote Access VPN
Make sure all the basic configurations needed for your router to access the internet have
been entered, have at least one public IP address for users to dial up to. Having done
these little things. Follow the steps outlined in the pictures below:
Click on PPP,click on the profile tab, enter any name for the profile, enter the private
address on your router LAN interface (this MUST be the interface leading to your private
network, the network you want the VPN users to have access to) enter a static address
for the user or you can choose from a pool of addresses of you are setting it for more
than one user, apply and ok.
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Next step:
Under the secret tab, enter user name, password, service should be PPTP or set to any, select the
name of the profile you created in step one above;mine was set to profile1, apply and ok.
Next step:
Click on PPP, then under the interface tab, click on PPTP server, click enable, select the profile
you created in step one, apply and ok.
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Next step:
Here you click on the interface on which you configured the VPN server on (mine was configured
on a bridged interface) come down to ARP and choose proxy-arp. If you DO NOT do this, your
VPN clients will connect but will not be able to communicate with hosts on the LAN.
Next step:
We connected to the VPN server. Now here is what happened. Am using Windows 10. To
connect, go to network and sharing Centre, click on set up a new connection or network (your
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computer MUST be connected to the internet) click on connect to a work place, click on no, create
a new connection, click next, click on use my internet connection, enter the public address on
your VPN server, and following the rest steps; it is easy.
As you can see, we can ping a local user on the LAN. So how easy it is to set up VPN on a
Mikrotik router.