Public bug reported:
Here in Russia PPTP VPNs are widely used in MetroEthernet (MAN,
Metropolitain Area Network) networks to perform users authentication.In
such (Ethernet) networks VPN connection is required at least to get
access to Internet (there is typically 2 connections - DHCP-assigned one
to LAN part of network and VPN to get access to remaining part of world
aka Internet). Default install of Ubuntu does not contains PPTP support
and there is no comfortable UI to configure PPTP.This leads to infinite
loop.User needs to download extra packages from Internet but he can't
access Internet without PPTP support.So, this is huge problem for Ubuntu
OSes here in Russia.Modern Windows systems are including PPTP support by
default so this is not an issue for Windows users. But a major
showstopper for lots of Russians who is trying to use Ubuntu.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Add PPTP VPN support and GUI to configure it to Ubuntu's CD (_very_ critical
bug for Russia!)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/134810
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