11 January, 2007

Connecting to a VPN in Ubuntu

Thanks to Jo, super-sysadmin, who pointed me at two links that finally got me connected to our work
VPN after I switched from Debian to Ubuntu.  The trick is not to use the old pptp-config, but
instead switch to a new package - network-manager.  Brian Daley wrote up the the actual
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