Send static routes to VPN clients on PPTP/L2TP/OpenVPN

RouterOS General
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I know this topic it’s largely posted on this forum from a lot of time (>6 years) :confused:

It seems the position of Mikrotik it’s to not develop nothing outside the RFCs (aka standards)

I was solving this problem using scripts on local computers, or modifying the configuration of the OpenVPN client.

One solution could be to allow the PPTP client to contact with a DHCP on the Mikrotik side, and we can use something like explained here http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/assigning-routes-to-pptp-client/8519/16 But the DHCP of the RouterOS doesn’t allows it.

As me, I think other distributors or installers are using another brand of routers which allow us to set this kind of static routes, because the need to modify something on the client side it’s totally crap.

We can wait a bit of movement on the Mikrotik position on this thing? Or it’s a final WON’T FIX.

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Im not sure if this will work but you can give it a try,

When creating the pptp secret there is a box that says routes, I assume if you put the subnet of your local network there the route should be carried over to the client

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Those routes are set on server side, not sent to the client.