PPTP VPN

Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol Microsoft advanced version of PPP that handles the connection right out of the box.

  • Places the PPTP endpoints on the client and server
  • The server endpoint is a remote access server program on a Windows server, called Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS).
  • On the Windows client side you run Add a VPN Connection in Settings in the Control Panel.
    • This creates a virtual NIC, does a DHCP query and gets an IP address from the DHCP server on the private network.
  • Every OS comes with some type of built-in VPN client that supports PPTP
  • This type of connection where a single computer becomes a member of that remote network is called a host-to-site connection.