Configure Cisco Router for Remote Access PPTP VPN Connections
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Set Up and Test VPN Connection on Client
Now it is time to configure a VPN connection on a client. I’ll be using a Windows 7 client. Make sure that your client is connected to the external network.
First go into the Control Panel.
Click Network and Internet.
Click Network and Sharing Center.
In the middle click “Set up a new connection or network”.
Highlight “Connect to a workplace”, then click Next.
Click “Use my Internet connection (VPN)”.
Enter the IP address or hostname of your Cisco router. I checked “Don’t connect now” and clicked Next.
Enter the user and password that you set up in the local database on the router earlier, click Create.
Click “Connect now” and the VPN connection should be established. In a future post I’ll discuss enhancing the remote access VPN to allow users to use their Active Directory user accounts to authenticate to the VPN server. Stay tuned!
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hai, aaron…nice to meet u…
i need to setup this pptp remote access vpn by using gns3 in coming 2 days. i have followed what you have written at here, but i cannot configure the router. i even dont know how to configure the router with NAT overload and those VLAN setup and IP address configuration. im new to GNS3…
can you teach me step by step on how to do this? i need to success establish the VPN connection at the end by using this topology..
Plz could u send me the copy of this?
the first step until the end.
URGENT!!!!
thanks a lot….
Hi Cindy,
I’m sorry but I don’t have any detailed instructions on setting up a router initially step by step. But if want to have a router set up the same as what I did you can basically copy and paste the initial config that I provided into the router console at the “configure terminal” prompt. One thing that I may not have included in the article is configuring vlan’s, before you copy the config you will need to set up the non-standard vlan 10 that I used in the vlan database of the router. This can different depending on the switch/router hardware involved, but for this GNS3 router with the NM16-ESW switch module at the enable mode you would enter something like:
vlan database
vlan 10
apply
Also I would highly recommend checking out the excellent documentation and videos that you can find over at the GNS3 website, http://www.gns3.net/. They have a lot of detail including how to set up GNS3 from scratch including the initial router configuration all the way up to very advanced network topology scenarios.
Best Wishes,
Aaron
Hi Aaron,
I want to know how did you connect the two clouds the vlan clouds and external clouds. Which interfaces you used for the two clouds?
Hi Waple,
It’s been a while since I have done anything in GNS3. But from what I can remember I believe I had to tie each cloud to a network device configured on the system running GNS3. It could be an actual physical NIC, or if you are running this on Windows you could install the Microsoft loopback adapter as an additional NIC. If you are in a virtual machine you could make network interfaces within that. Also if you have something like VMware Workstation/Server installed on a host and run GNS3 there you to create several private “host only” network adapters.
Best Wishes,
Aaron
What if I need to enter a password for the router? Where do I key it in and how do I do it?
@ papa..Read the article attentively..then You will get your answer.
hi Aaron, thanks for your blog, i need help
i traying configure a cisco 887 and i have a problem in this part:
ISATELNET#conf term
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
ISATELNET(config)# interface Virtual-Template1
ISATELNET(config-if)#ip unnumbered Vlan 1
ISATELNET(config-if)#peer default ip address pool PPTP-VPN-POOL
^
% Invalid input detected at ‘^’ marker.
ISATELNET(config-if)#ppp encrypt mppe 128
^
% Invalid input detected at ‘^’ marker.
ISATELNET(config-if)# ppp authentication ms-chap-v2
^
% Invalid input detected at ‘^’ marker.
put “marker” in the P
Vlan is the Lan where i have my LAN, can you help me thanks
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