Wednesday, December 11, 2013

PPTP server on AWS Ubuntu instance

Simple VPN server configuration for easy VPN access to AWS using built in Windows VPN client.

First to install pptp server package.
sudo apt-get install pptpd

Now to configuration:

edit /etc/pptpd.conf

option /etc/ppp/pptpd-options
logwtmp
localip 172.20.0.1 
remoteip 172.20.0.10-50

edit  /etc/ppp/pptpd-options

refuse-pap
refuse-chap
refuse-mschap
require-mschap-v2
require-mppe-128
ms-dns 8.8.8.8
ms-dns 8.8.4.4
proxyarp
nodefaultroute
lock
nobsdcomp
mtu 1420
mru 1420

edit  /etc/ppp/chap-secrets 

# client        server  secret                  IP addresses
client1      pptpd   secret1      *
client2      pptpd   secret2      *

Add to /etc/rc.local

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
iptables -t mangle -A FORWARD -p tcp -m tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -j TCPMSS --clamp-mss-to-pmtu
iptables -t mangle -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -j TCPMSS --clamp-mss-to-pmtu

Run:

/etc/rc.local
service pptpd restart

Done.

Provided by:Forthscale systems, cloud experts

Sunday, December 08, 2013

fixing missing apt-add-repository command


You might need to use apt-add-repository script and will get a missing command error. For example:
sudo: apt-add-repository: command not found

in order to fix that you nred to install  python-software-properties package
# apt-get install python-software-properties

That's it.

Provided by:Forthscale systems, cloud experts

solving error: Your current user or role does not have access to Kubernetes objects on this EKS cluster.

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