Hey everyone… What am I doing wrong? I setup a test lab that worked fine. I have two PCs loaded with RouterOS 2.9. I created a PPTP VPN, setup EOIP and then bridged the interfaces. Everything worked fine. Now I am trying to put these routers on the Internet (2 different ISPs), substituted my real public IPs for my fake “public” IPs. And now my PPTP won’t connect. My client just goes from dialing to disconnected. I can ping and telnet from router to router. What am I missing?
Have you checked if there are some “remainings” of the old IP address? I mean, it might be somewhere in firewall configuration of somewhere else. You have to replace it with the new one all arroung. Maybe you should export the configuration and check out if you find your old IP somewhere.
Have you changed default route?
Actually, i misstated when i said I substituted.. I reloaded the machine completely but did the exact same setup substituting IPs in the process.
Changed default route? is there a way to test if my PPTP server is answering?
Look at /interface print if your pptp is working. Try to ping your pptp server.
Okay, looking into this more, I noticed that the PPTP client uses the Internal NIC IP addresss of the PPTP-Server for its Connect-to address. Someone please explain how, if local-address is 10.10.1.1 and remote-address is 10.10.2.1, PPTP-Client knows how to get to the Internal NIC of the PPTP-Server?
Setup on PPTP server:
Add a user:
[admin@PPTP-Server] ppp secret> add name=jack password=pass
... local-address=10.0.0.1 remote-address=10.0.0.2
Enable the PPTP server:
[admin@PPTP-Server] interface pptp-server server> set enabled=yes
Setup on PPTP client:
Add the PPTP client:
[admin@PPTP-Client] interface pptp-client> add user=jack password=pass
... connect-to=10.5.8.104 disabled=no
So here is where I am at… When I setup the PPTP tunnel , it will connect and run for about 35 seconds. Then it drops off. It does this over and over again. Mikrotik is saying that it is because I am running on a level 1 license. (I thought the level one license would support 1 pptp tunnel… sounds fishy to me). So they suggested that I reinstall the demo which should be fully functional. I did this, set everything back up and I have the exact same problem. What gives? Anybody have any ideas of what is going on?
PPTP Server setup:
Intranet NIC: 192.168.1.254
Internet NIC: spublic IP
Gateway: gateway for spublic IP
ppp secret: add name=user password=password remote-address=“cpublic IP” local-address=“spublic IP” service=pptp
interface pptp-server: add name=from_client user=user
interface pptp-server server: set enabled=yes
PPTP Client setup:
Intranet NIC: 192.168.2.254
Internet NIC: cpublic IP
Gateway: gateway for cpublic IP
interface pptp-client: add name=to_server name=user password=password connect-to=“spublic IP”
inerface pptp-client: enable to_server
HELP!!!