Meeting 2020 10 23

Agenda

• Check service --status-all every time you restart the server or reboot the system

• Choosing one of the following ways to have "Internet" after connect with PPTP

  • Network and Internel settings -> Change adapter options -> select your vpn connection -> Prperties -> Networking tab -> select IP V4 -> Properties -> Advanced -> uncheck Use default gateway on remote network
  • Or type following command in PowerShell:

    Set-VpnConnection -Name "YOURVPN" -SplitTunneling $True -PassThru 
    

  • Helpful link: windows-10-pptp-vpn-no-internet

• Helpful link check IP address: https://www.iptrackeronline.com/

• Check user who connects to our server(Log File)

  # Contains currently logged in users.
  utmpdump /var/run/utmp
  
  # Contains all current and past logins and additional information about system reboots, etc.
  utmpdump /var/log/wtmp
  
  # Contains all bad login attempts.
  utmpdump /var/log/btmp
  

• Problem 1: Linksys router still cannot connect to both digital ocean and AWS instance.

• Problem 2: Android phone cannot connect through PPTP.

Meeting Summary

• Agenda 2 did not solve the problem, the client just connect to the server but no data transfer, client still using its own router to transfer packets

Next Step

• Set up a local environment to see if all data go through the Linux server.

           Internet
              *
              *
              |
              |
	    Router
	  /        \
         /          \
Linux server	    Windows machine
[PPTP]              [Go to some webpage]
[run TCPdump]

• Check "ExpressVPN" L2TP connection function