Comment on Using a Point-to-Point Tunnelling Protocol, Virtual Private Network (PPTP VPN) client on a Raspberry Pi by Geoff Poskitt

Hi Ben, thanks for providing this guideline. I have found it very useful for my project which is to provide a VPN tunnel to transport my smart TV to another country so that I can see geo-locked streaming content. I connect the rpi to my home network via wlan0 and connect the Smart TV to eth0. Your posting is therefore only part of what I have done. It all works, but only some of the time.I suspect that problem might have to do with you putting the
pon proxpnuk updetach
in /etc/rc.local. Doesn’t this mean that the pon bash script might run when the wireless internet connection (in my case) is not up yet? This seems to be the case with me sometimes. How can we wait for the connection? I’m just a newby so have no idea on this at the moment. Since I am a newby, can I ask another clarification question? You also have
sudo route add -net “0.0.0.0/0″ dev “ppp0″
in /etc/rc.local. Is it not necessary to delete the default route first?
Cheers,
Geoff