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How do I use a PPTP/OpenVPN connection as a SOCKS/HTTP proxy?

Yes you can do this. You need to connect to the VPN without it taking over your whole network, but still have the VPN's interface useable. I've done that with OpenVPN, by adding lines to the config ...
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How do I use a PPTP/OpenVPN connection as a SOCKS/HTTP proxy?

For OpenVPN, there's a patch for ocproxy support, but it's outdated (for 2.3.x branch). I've ported it to the recent 2.5, but this is PoC (Windows not supported, yet). You can use it with ocproxy or ...
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Windows 7 default VPN - Single Click to Connect

To connect to VPN without user interaction and to avoid write down the password in the batch file you can use ... rasphone -d VPNname ... and remove "Prompt for Username and password" dialog with ...
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PPTP VPN works from Windows, not Linux

Since it works on the same hardware running windows, it's likely the software firewall in ubuntu, or possibly upnp in windows configuring the router for the traffic (see last section of post). As a ...
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PPTP VPN Fails Authentication But Using Correct Credentials

The pppd program used here for PPTP does not support EAP-PEAP at all. So the reason authentication fails is beause the client isn't trying EAP-PEAP/MSCHAPv2; it is actually trying direct MSCHAPv2 ...
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Network Load On VPN

No, this is not necessarily true. The route traffic takes depends on the routing tables configured in the routers at the satellite offices. Given the fixed nature of your network, I would recommending ...
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Is PPTPD faster than Hamachi

Recenly I got OCI free tier instace. So when I setup pptpd server and invite my friends into it are there any chances that ping get any lower? Depends on how far you (and your friends) are from the ...
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How to set specific URLs to use VPN connection for DNS (Windows)?

I solved the problem. first uncheck "use default gateway on remote network" to let all requests bypass VPN connection. Then with below command, let all 192.168.123.x requests (including DNS ...
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SSL does not work on Windows 10 against rutracker.org via PPTP, but works with L2TP

There is nothing wrong with Windows' TLS library (and indeed curl on Linux behaves the same way when compiled against OpenSSL/1.1.0i) – it simply uses a newer handshake format which tries to use fewer,...
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PPP - PPTP VPN drops connection with weird debug message

Found the problem. If you specify the domain in the chap-secrets file in your username, the authentication part will succeed, but for some reason you'll get garbled text. So for example, if you use: ...
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Windows 10 PPTP VPN No Internet

Ended up using this to set split tunneling in W10 in order to PPTP to our Linksys router. set-vpnconnection -name "PPTP VPN Connection" -splittunneling $true -passthru -alluserconnection This steps ...
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Error in installing available packages in kali linux

If your Apt index is very old, it will attempt to fetch files which no longer exist on the server, because they have been superseded with newer versions. Try apt-get update -y before running apt-get ...
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Is there a way to create something like a reverse proxy for PPTP?

Not for PPTP specifically, no. But on the other hand, it's not even needed – just have two VPN connections and let the server act as an IP router between them. That is: ExternalServer acts as the ...
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Error 800 connecting to VPN on certain networks on Windows 10

After a couple of days of searching the web I stumbled across this article https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/312840/error-message-error-720-no-ppp-control-protocols-configured which prompted me ...
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VPN to avoid the Great Firewall of China is only partly working

EDIT Marek Rost's comment appeared as I was writing my post. I read the link he gave, http://blog.zorinaq.com/my-experience-with-the-great-firewall-of-china/, after submitting my post. It is ...
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Establish a VPN Connection on Windows Server 2012 R2 Core

I still don't know what feature or role installs rasdial, but I was able to copy all of the dependent files onto the Core server (in a folder called C:\RasDial) to make it work. I was missing a lot ...
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Can't resolve remote hosts by name over VPN connection, but can access hosts via IP

1 - Open the Network and Sharing Centre by right-clicking on your network connections symbol in the bottom-right corner of the screen, then click on Open Network and Sharing Center. 2 - Click on the ...
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