transmission will not use my vpn pptp connection

[zimzon]

Hello,

I have managed to create a tunnel named ppp0 but transmission-daemon will not act on that connection, rather than eth0
I have been trying to learn as much as i can on the subject but im stuck!

What i have done:

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sudo pptpsetup --create anonine --server vpn.anonine.net --username #### --password ##### --encrypt --start


Have also changed 2 lines in /etc/ppp/options.pptp (removed '#' )

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# http://ppp.samba.org/ the PPP project version of PPP by Paul Mackarras
# ppp-2.4.2 or later with MPPE only, kernel module ppp_mppe.o
# {{{
# Require MPPE 128-bit encryption

require-mppe-128

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# }}}
# http://polbox.com/h/hs001/ fork from PPP project by Jan Dubiec
# ppp-2.4.2 or later with MPPE and MPPC, kernel module ppp_mppe_mppc.o
# {{{
# Require MPPE 128-bit encryption

mppe required,stateless

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# }}}

now i get running ifconfig

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ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol 
          inet addr:178.73.203.88  P-t-P:178.73.203.1  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1496  Metric:1
          RX packets:1107 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
          RX bytes:62378 (62.3 KB)  TX bytes:72 (72.0 B)


the tunnel is there as a connection but i cant get transmission to get that it should USE it. because it doesnt.
ppp0 lies in the bottom of my list of network interfaces { eth0, lo and ppp0 } with ifconfig
i wonder if i should run

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ip route add  178.73.203.1 transmission-daemon ppp0


or how do i solve this issue?
i tried to run transmission through vpn (pptp) on my laptop and it worked like a charm... so what to do to make it work on my server?

every help i can get is appreciated

[swivelsnoot]

Best resource I've found: http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-debian.phtml

I'm using Debian though and it took a fair bit of fiddling...and reading...

If you think you've successfully established a pptp connection with what you've done then try the following routing changes, otherwise start again with the instructions on the link above.

# direct tunnelled packets to the tunnel server
route add -host vpn.anonine.net dev eth0

# direct all other packets into the tunnel
route del default eth0
route add default dev ppp0

good luck