@cblonde - if you're setting up a Debian-based system, I have written a script that sets up PPTP on a system that works with my RouterBoard: www.markmearns.com/sandbox/pptp.sh - still in testing but sets up a working PPTP server on a Ubuntu VPS with PPP enabled in under a minute.

Mark.

I hadn't seen that, no, and certainly helped shine a little light on things. I have since been able to get PPTP working though and as encryption isn't especially important to me (I want the VPN for IP geolocation more than the security) then this has solved my problem. Thanks for that though, your a...

Ah, I just came on to update that I have managed to resolve this. In my /etc/pptpd.conf I had: localip = [server's external IP] remoteip = 10.1.0.1-100 I changed this to: localip = 10.1.0.1 remoteip = 10.1.0.2-100 and everything works fine now. Check your configuration and see if you have the same p...

Hi all, I wish to connect my RouterBOARD (951-2n) to an L2TP VPN with a pre-shared key and route all data to the VPN server. I have set up the L2TP client in Winbox, but I just cannot get my head around adding the pre-shared key in IPsec. I have read the Mikrotik wiki and anything I can Google to he...

Hi there, I have a Routerboard with v5.24 installed that I wish to connect to a remote PPTP server and route all traffic through it. So far I have successfully set this up using online guides and when connected to a commercial VPN service like hidemyass.com, it stays connected and routes all traffic...