OpnBSD PPTP Client: Install and Create a VPN

To install and create a PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) VPN client on OpenBSD, you can follow these steps:

1. Install the pptp client package. OpenBSD includes the pptp client package in its package system, which you can install using the pkg_add command. For example:

pkg_add -i pptp

This will install the pptp package and its dependencies.

2. Edit the /etc/ppp/pptp-client.conf file to specify the VPN connection details. This file contains the configuration options for the pptp client.

Add the following lines to the file, replacing server_name, username, and password with the appropriate values for your VPN connection:

set phone "server_name"
set authname "username"
set authkey "password"

3. Connect to the VPN using the pptp client. You can use the following command to connect to the VPN:

pptp pptp-client.conf

This will establish a PPTP VPN connection to the specified server using the username and password specified in the pptp-client.conf file.

4. Disconnect from the VPN using the pptp client. You can use the following command to disconnect from the VPN:

pptp pptp-client.conf disconnect

For more information about using the pptp client on OpenBSD, you can refer to the pptp man page or search online for tutorials and examples.