VPN + Mikrotik

Has anybody had any luck with setting up a VPN client on their AllStar box and hooking into a MikroTik router? I have the mikrotik router configured with a PPTP VPN server with my MacBook and a windows PC hooking up just fine to the network.

I’ve been trying for days to get the Raspbian based AllStar distro to connect reliably. Currently, I can sometimes get it to connect, and others it spits out errors :
LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests.

About 20% of the time, the VPN actually conects. On my mac, it connects 100% of the time.

Tried it on a friends Raspberry pi, on on a laptop with Ubuntu installed, and even tried to connect to other PPTP VPN services including VPNbook. I am using the pptp-linux software package.

I am getting the same problems, sometimes, I can connect the, but if I try stopping the VPN and starting it back up, it will not connect and give me the errors.

I am having problems using the MikroTik as an openVPN server as well.

Is there anybody who has had luck with PPTP on their node?

Thanks

Skyler KD0WHB