Internet access via PPTP

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Hi,

I got an issue configuring basic PPTP access to internet.
Current status:

  1. PPTP Client is configured and connected (Interface name is “pptp1”).
  2. I can ping hosts from the router and traceroute but only if I specify interface=pptp1
  3. I can browse internet provider local resources from LAN

In a few places I found that this step is required:

  • IP/Firewall/Nat: add chain=srcnat action=masquerade out-interface=pptp1
    but it didn’t help.

Could you please help with this?

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few things are needed for your to access Internet:

  1. route, in your case, if you enabled Add Default Route, in PPTP client, this shoudl be added for you.
  2. NAT: or masquerade, this trancelate your LAN address to your WAN IP address, in your case it is whatever IP address you get from you VPN connection.
    3, DNS: this can be either your ISP’s DNS, or just Google.

these 3 things are needed for your router to access the Internet, can you ping 8.8.8.8 from the router? can you ping Google.com from the router?