if pptp vpn is grayed out in network-manager applet #debian #sid #gnome

seems to be a good idea to install the pptp plugins for network manager

sudo apt-get install network-manager-pptp-gnome network-manager-pptp

also vpn connection is quite slow so i have disabled the vpn to be the default route and i use my own dns

so i choose Automatic Address only
and ignore automatically obtained routes to be the default one (play with these checkboxes)
and you can observe the results with

# ip ro