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1 Title: PPTP VPN
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2 Date: 2011-08-13
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3 Lang: en
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5 I'm a big fan of [OpenVPN](http://www.openvpn.net/) - I use it to tunnel traffic between my home net and the office. I also have an OpenVPN set with a customer site. Since I recently flushed an Android update and rooted the device at the same time I thought about installing OpenVPN on the Android. Searching for "openvpn" in the market comes up with a few search results but investigating a bit more into the use of OpenVPN on an Android is not very encouraging.
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7 So I had a look at a different approach: Android by default allows to create a VPN via PPTP. On the Gentoo forums someone already did an excellent [HOWTO on setting up a PPTP server](http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-470858-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html?sid=a5146c2e062b36474e6f1e1083e4acfa) on Gentoo. I tried it and it worked like a charm. The only little annoyance on the Android side is that the name server is lost as soon as I turn on the VPN. I need to dig deeper into the config to see if this is something that can be turned off in the pppd.
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9 As an added bonus, the PPTP setup also works with my wife's iPhone :-)