After doing a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala on my router, I realized that I had lost the ability to connect to my employer’s VPN. I use Firestarter for managing my firewall on this particular router.
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As I usually do, I googled “firestarter vpn“. Much to my dismay, it appeared that the Firestarter website was no longer alive. Instead of the usual Firestarter page, a page filled with useless links about security and anti-virus loaded. Luckily I was able to access the cached version of the page from Google. Since then, it appears that the Firestarter website has come back to life.

I wanted to make a note of how to allow VPN connections in the event that the Firestarter website becomes inaccessible again, that’s basically the point of this post. The page on the Firestarter site that details VPN connections can be found here. This should apply to pretty much every Linux distribution, not just Ubuntu.

To allow VPN connections with the Microsoft VPN client, simply enter the following lines into /etc/firestarter/user-pre.

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And to allow VPN connections with the Cisco VPN client, enter the following lines into /etc/firestarter/user-pre.

Finally, if you’re running a Microsoft VPN server and want to allow incoming PPTP VPN connections, add the following lines to /etc/firestarter/user-pre.

That should pretty much cover it. If you are using OpenVPN, head over to the Firestarter VPN configuration page for details.

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