Setting up a VPN should be easy right?

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Setup a FreeBSD client to connect to a Windows PPTP VPN

OS: FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT mpd5: 5.5 (From net/mpd5) Sample mpd.conf: mpd.conf)

After spending numerous hours trying to get my FreeBSD system to connect to a client's PPTP VPN server I managed to get it to work. It took an odd combination of various options but it's now working.

There were a few keys.

1. Make the connection persistent set iface disable on-demand
2. Do not advertise PAP set link no pap
3. Do not advertise EAP set link no eap
4. Disable chap set link disable chap
5. Disable vjcomp (Which is enabled by default) set ipcp no vjcomp
6. Enable no-orig-auth set link enable no-orig-auth

Fire it up using mpd5 -f win-pptp-mpd.conf (Assuming you downloaded my config file).