Configure a PPTP VPN Server on Mikrotik RouterOS

Here is a simple step by step tutorial with images and all information that you need to get a fully working PPTP
VPN server

Step 1: create VPN pool

IP pools are used to define range of IP addresses that will be used for your PPTP VPN server
[admin@MikroTik] > /ip pool print
NAME

RANGES

VPN-pool

192.168.1.101-192.168.1.110

Step 2: create a VPN user

In this step you will create a user that can connect to your VPN Server. In this example only one user is created,
but you can add as many user as you need
[admin@MikroTik] > /ppp secret print
# NAME SERVICE CALLER-ID PASSWORD PROFILE
0 ppp1 pptp

ppp1

****

REMOTE-ADDRESS

VPN-profile

Step 3: create a VPN profile

From wiki.mikrotik.com
PPP profiles are used to define default values for user access records stored under /ppp secret submenu. Settings
in /ppp secret User Database override corresponding /ppp profile settings except that single IP addresses always
take precedence over IP pools when specified as local-address or remote-address parameters.
[admin@MikroTik] > /ppp profile print

name="VPN-profile" local-address=192.168.1.1 remote-address=VPN-pool bridge=br1

use-mpls=default
use-compression=default use-vj-compression=default use-encryption=yes onlyone=default
change-tcp-mss=yes address-list="" dns-server=8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4

Step 4: Create PPTP Server Binding (Optional)

This step is optional, because your VPN server will work even if you skip this.

In this step you bind user ppp1 to interface pptp-in1. This is very useful if you need to create firewall rules for a
specific user.

Step 5: Enable VPN Server

In this step we just need to enable our PPTP server and set default profile
[admin@MikroTik] > /interface pptp-server server print
enabled: yes
max-mtu: 1450
max-mru: 1450
mrru: 1600
authentication: mschap1,mschap2
keepalive-timeout: 30
default-profile: VPN-profile

Step 6: Configure bridge (Optional)

Like step 4, even this step is optional. This step is the main reason that Im writing this tutorial, so it deserves a
few word :)

If you skip this step, you will be able to connect to your VPN server, you will have the same public IP as your VPN
server, but you will not see any other devices connected on this subnet. If this is OK for you, you dont need to do
anything else.
If you want to see other devices in your subnet, you must change ARP mode for your Bridge. For more details about
ARP modes go to mikrotik documentation

[admin@MikroTik] > /interface bridge print

Flags: X - disabled, R - running
0

R name="br1" mtu=1500 l2mtu=1598 arp=proxy-arp mac-address=4C:5E:0C:21:A4:85

protocol-mode=rstp
priority=0x8000 auto-mac=no admin-mac=4C:5E:0C:21:A4:85 max-message-age=20s
forward-delay=15s
transmit-hold-count=6 ageing-time=5m

Step 7: Finish
If you did all right, you now have a working PPTP VPN server.