Reputation: 491
I've installed pptpd on CentOS 7 with AWS EC2 and I can connect to vpn with windows client but I have no internet access while the server has full internet access. In pptpd log I noticed the error "Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP".
I've changed the dns in /etc/ppp/options.pptpd as below:
ms-dns 8.8.8.8
ms-dns 8.8.4.4
I've also created users in /etc/ppp/chap-secrets and clients can connect without problem (but with no internet access.)
I've also enabled IP forwarding in /etc/sysctl.conf
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
and execute this command:
sudo sysctl -p
I changed local and remote IPs in /etc/pptpd.conf as below:
localip 192.168.10.1
remoteip 192.168.20.10-100
I configured firewall for IP masquerading:
sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ens5 -j MASQUERADE
This is the ifconfig result:
ens5: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 9001
inet 172.31.28.246 netmask 255.255.240.0 broadcast 172.31.31.255
inet6 fe80::4e6:11ff:fed8:bb4a prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 06:e6:11:d8:bb:4a txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 3668 bytes 347939 (339.7 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 3111 bytes 385009 (375.9 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 6 bytes 416 (416.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 6 bytes 416 (416.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
ppp0: flags=4305<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,MULTICAST> mtu 1396
inet 192.168.10.1 netmask 255.255.255.255 destination 192.168.20.10
ppp txqueuelen 3 (Point-to-Point Protocol)
RX packets 40 bytes 3158 (3.0 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 8 bytes 104 (104.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
And this is the pptpd status (I could connect to the VPN successful but could not access the internet):
[root@ip-172-31-28-246 ~]# systemctl status pptpd
● pptpd.service - PoPToP Point to Point Tunneling Server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/pptpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2021-08-22 09:24:41 UTC; 2min 9s ago
Main PID: 1476 (pptpd)
CGroup: /system.slice/pptpd.service
├─1476 /usr/sbin/pptpd -f
├─1505 pptpd [171.213.14.133:ED5A - 0000]
└─1506 /usr/sbin/pppd local file /etc/ppp/options.pptpd 115200 192.168.10.1:192.168.20.10 ipparam 171.213.14.133 plugin /usr/lib64/pptpd/pptpd-logwtmp.so pptpd-original-ip 171.213.14.133 remote...
Aug 22 09:25:28 ip-172-31-28-246.ap-east-1.compute.internal pptpd[1505]: CTRL: Starting call (launching pppd, opening GRE)
Aug 22 09:25:28 ip-172-31-28-246.ap-east-1.compute.internal pppd[1506]: Plugin /usr/lib64/pptpd/pptpd-logwtmp.so loaded.
Aug 22 09:25:28 ip-172-31-28-246.ap-east-1.compute.internal pppd[1506]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0
Aug 22 09:25:28 ip-172-31-28-246.ap-east-1.compute.internal pppd[1506]: Using interface ppp0
Aug 22 09:25:28 ip-172-31-28-246.ap-east-1.compute.internal pppd[1506]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1
Aug 22 09:25:32 ip-172-31-28-246.ap-east-1.compute.internal pppd[1506]: peer from calling number 171.213.14.133 authorized
Aug 22 09:25:32 ip-172-31-28-246.ap-east-1.compute.internal pppd[1506]: MPPE 128-bit stateless compression enabled
Aug 22 09:25:34 ip-172-31-28-246.ap-east-1.compute.internal pppd[1506]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP
Aug 22 09:25:34 ip-172-31-28-246.ap-east-1.compute.internal pppd[1506]: local IP address 192.168.10.1
Aug 22 09:25:34 ip-172-31-28-246.ap-east-1.compute.internal pppd[1506]: remote IP address 192.168.20.10
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