Routing all data through an VPN tunnel with ppp
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I'm trying to create a VPN tunnel that forwards all data from the local machine to the VPN server. I'm using ppp-2.4.5 for this with the following configuration:
pty "pptp <VPNServer> --nolaunchpppd"
name <my login name>
remotename PPTP
usepeerdns
require-mppe-128
file /etc/ppp/options.pptp
persist
maxfail 0
holdoff 5
I have a script in if-up.d with the following content:
route del default eth0
route add default dev ppp0
Before starting the VPN tunnel my routing looks like:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 2 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 lo
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
After starting the tunnel (via pon) it looks like:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 ppp0
12.34.56.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
127.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 lo
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
Now the problem is, that the VPN tunnel seems to be looped into itself. If I run ifconfig after a few seconds without any traffic:
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.0.10 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 192.168.255.255
ether 00:01:2e:2f:ff:35 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 39931 bytes 6784614 (6.4 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 90 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 34980 bytes 7633181 (7.2 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 20 memory 0xfbdc0000-fbde0000
ppp0: flags=4305<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,MULTICAST> mtu 1496
inet 12.34.56.78 netmask 255.255.255.255 destination 12.34.56.1
ppp txqueuelen 3 (Point-to-Point Protocol)
RX packets 7 bytes 94 (94.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 782863 bytes 349257986 (333.0 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
It states that already over 300 MiB have been send, ppp0 is only online since a few seconds and the connection isn't working anyway.
Can someone please help me to fix the routing table, so that the traffic from ppp0 is not send again through ppp0 but instead goes to the remote server?
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