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---+ VPN setup on Linux

The following instructions are for Ubuntu. Other distros may require a slightly different procedure.

<ol start="1"> <li>Open the System menu and go to Preferences -&gt; Network Connections</li> <li>Click on the VPN tab and on the Add button</li> <li>Select Point-to-Point Tunnelling Protocol (PPTP) and click Create</li> <li>Type RAL PPTP in the Connection name field</li> <li>Type vpn.rl.stfc.ac.uk as the gateway</li> <li>Put your federal ID in the User name entry</li> <li>Type CLRC in the NT Domain field.</li> <li>Click on the Advanced button and tick the "Use Point-to-Point encryption (MPPE)" option</li> <li>Click on Save to close the Advanced window, and Apply to finalize the VPN creation</li> <li>Go to System -&gt; Settings -&gt; Network</li> <li>Select Automatic proxy configuration</li> <li>Enter http://wwwcache.rl.ac.uk/proxy.pac and close the window.</li> <li>Now the VPN connection is available by clicking on the Connection button on the top bar and choosing VPN Connections -&gt; RAL PPTP</li> <li>Type your federal password when prompted</li> </ol>
Note: you might need to explicitly allow inbound connections using the GRE protocol on your local firewall. For SL6 something like

=iptables -A INPUT --protocol gre -s vpn.rl.stfc.ac.uk -j ACCEPT=

should work.

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