[pptp-server] pptp linux 2 linux connection

[Scott M. Stone]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Claudiu Farcas wrote:

> > 
> > >   I have troubles setting up a VPN tunnel between a PoPPToP server
> > > (pptpd-1.0.0) and a pptp-client, both running under linux. The server is
> > > configured with
> > > ----------
> > > debug
> > > localip 192.168.0.1-20
> > > remoteip 192.168.1.1-20
> > > ----------
> > > I have removed the compression negotiation phase and the auth for testing.
> > > The error is the same: Peer is not authorized to use remote address x.y.z.t.
> > >   Does anybody have any idea what's wrong here? There is no problem with
> > > auth or compression or lcp, or gre tunnel just the ip negotiation is
> > > wrong. I have also tryed at the client side to pass the ipcp-accept-local
> > > and ipcp-accept-remote options but the problem is the same.
> > 
> > As I van see you have auth. problem try to put noauth in you options file to start with
>   I don't think it's an auth problem. The problem seems to be at the ip
> negotiation phase. I have tryed to put a username+pass pair in
> /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and +pap name login remotename pass to the pptp
> client but the same error occured. Is there anybody that can test this on
> two computers? Try to install pptpd server on one machine and pptp client
> on another one, then try to create a VPN between them. If it works send me
> the config files and tell me the system config (distribution, kernel
> version, and pptp server + client versions).

If you're going linux-to-linux, get FreeS/WAN and run IPSEC.  It's much
better.  The only reason to use poptop is to support Windows clients, and
FreeS/WAN and Poptop can coexist on the same box if you need them to.

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Scott M. Stone, CCNA <sstone at taos.com>
UNIX Systems and Network Engineer
Taos - The SysAdmin Company