[SOLVED] Linux VPN server

[cheapvoip]

Hi every one !

I need to setup a PPTP vpn server

i am planing to get a VPS server from ixwebhosting

they will install either on for the following os
1...centOS
2...debian
3...openSUSE

which would be best for a PPTP server, i belive i would have to install POPTOP server on them my self! or is there a better way to do it?

any user input would be very much appriciated

Regards

[Rubberman]

What about OpenVPN? It runs on all of those host operating systems. Why do you specify a PPTP server? What do you mean by that? PPTP is a means to create a TCP/IP network connection over serial communication links and when running presents a standard ethernet-type connection to the system. Any standard VPN server should work in such an environment.

[cheapvoip]

All my clients will be windows XP/ vista /7 based

they will creat a VPN dial up connection to my Linux based server which will be authenticated by User Name and password
while openVPN will require thrid party software installation/ ssl certificate?

i should be able to control there bandwidth/account expiry even restrict their web browsing to certain sites only

any ideas?

[cheapvoip]

ok i got it all installed on centOS 5.4

got stuck in ip table

when i try this
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE

i get this error
iptables v1.3.5: can't initialize iptables table `nat': Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?)

?

[cheapvoip]

got it..

it wont work on a VPS ... coz striped down version of OS is intalled for all VPS

so i bought a Dedicated server .. installed pptdp worked great for 1 day :o/