PPTP

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PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) was founded by a consortium (Ascend Communications, Microsoft, 3 Com, u.a.) to build VPN tunnels. It tunnels PPP packets through a IP network by encapsulating it into a GRE packet.

 

PPTP is part of the Microsoft Windows operating systems and therefore it is widespread.

 

This type of VPN is used for Site-to-End connections (remote VPN). The configuration is very easy.

 

In the module PPTP you must set the general settings. The user accounts must be created at the user management.