I am probably asking some really basic questions here but really hope someone will help me out as I have spent a long time trying to figure this out without success.
What I want to achieve as the end result is to use the RB750 between one PC and my ADSL wireless router with a PPTP VPN connection. All other PC’s will connect to the wireless router as normal.
The wireless router is a TP-Link W8968 with an ip address and default gateway of 192.168.1.1 and the DHCP server is enabled with a start ip address of 192.168.1.100 and the end ip address of 192.168.1.254.
I have connected a cable to a LAN port on the TP Link and to Port1 (WAN) of the RB750 and after many hours of research online and reading the manual I have exhausted all attempts to even get the two devices to communicate with each other let alone make a VPN work.
Please can somebody point me at some article explaining how to do this or be kind enough to offer me some instruction themselves.
If you connect ether1 of your RB750 to your existing TP-Link and connect your PC (with DHCP on) to one of the ports of the MikroTik it should work right away with default config.
Is your MikroTik served with an IP address from the TP-link?
When you connect your PC to the MikroTik, are you served with an IP address and are you able to connect to the RouterBoard?
If you can provide remote access (rdp, teamviewer etc.) i can set it up for you, you can follow my work and hopefully learn something. The setup you requested is quite basic. Drop me a line at uros[at]trony.me
OK so I can now connect to the web Lan to Lan using the default settings of the RB750. Remarkable what you can achieve with an ethernet cable that is not broken!
I cannot however get the PPTP VPN connection to work. The status is enabled, running, waiting for packets??
Probably you need to create a route or some mangle rules in order to force traffic to go over the tunnel.
If you are using the default configuration, all traffic will be forwarded over ether1.
If your PPTP tunnel is up, can you perform a ping to the other side of the tunnel?
When I ping the host the lower two lines disappear from the list?
I have the following mangle rule setup:
prerouting
src.address 192.168.88.2-192.168.88.254 (checkbox unchecked)
Action: mark routing
New Routing Mark: PPTP-VPN
Passthrough is checked
I have the following NAT rule setup:
srcnat
Out.interface: VPN-1
Action: masquerade
PPP interface
Name VPN-1
Type: PPTP Client
Dial on demand and Add default route checked
Allow all
Using the default config and connecting LAN to LAN.
I can access the internet from the PC connected to the 750.
I can access the internet from PC’s connected to the TP-Link.
I can ping the 192.168.11 gateway from the 750.
I cannot ping the ip address of the VPN host from the PC connected to the 750.
I cannot however get any packet transfer over the VPN connection, host not found.
To my limited ability it would seem that there is no route set for the VPN tunnel, am I correct?
I am uncertain where the ip in 10.112.112.124 reachable VPN-1 1 comes from?
This is getting very frustrating. My networking skills are improving as a result of this, but sadly are not at a standard which allows me to see the error of my ways when it comes to making this VPN connection function.
Really would appreciate some config advice to get this working.
