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PPTP is most popular VPN used by people who want to connect to workplace from home. From the network layer point of view, PPTP is layer 2 protocol, which is using L2TP. In the industry, Layer 3 protocol, IPSec, is well used. There is Linux open-source VPN package named SWAN. You can dig it if you are interesting in that.

Now, we turn back to our topic. We assume that PPTP server is setup already.

First, we need to apt-get pptp package

sudo apt-get install network-manager-pptp

Then, go to network icon to configure VPN

Then, add a VPN network.

Following the instruction, we can complete PPTP configuration.

Last, we can simply click network icon and choose VPN we have already setup. After authentication, we have connected to workplace network.

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