[pptp-server] problem connecting Win2000 client (almost there though..)

[Louis-David Mitterrand]

On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 10:00:23AM -0500, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> Louis-David Mitterrand <cunctator at apartia.ch> writes:
> > There is no problem with Win98SE clients, but for the life of me I
> > can't succeed in connecting my Win2000-RC3 laptop to our Linux
> > firwall. After a successful MSCHAP-v2 authentication the process
> > hangs (and terminates) with these messages which make no sense to
> > me:
> > 
> > Dec 23 10:33:43 sargon modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
> > ppp-compress-18
> 
> This suggests you aren't using encryption...  You need the following
> line in /etc/conf.modules so that the kernel can find the MPPE code:
> 
>   alias ppp-compress-18 ppp_mppe
> 
> The problem may be that your Win2k box is set to require encryption
> but the Win98SE one is not.  Note that there is no way to tell pppd to
> require encryption, because pppd thinks of it as "compression", not
> encryption.

I actually had that alias in my /etc/modules.conf (Debian potato
machine) but removed it temporarily to test something with regard to the
"timeout in 3 seconds" problem I am having.

When modules.conf is properly configured with:

> alias ppp-compress-1 off # This is Predictor-1, not yet supported
> alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
> alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
> alias ppp-compress-26 off
> alias ppp-compress-18 ppp_mppe

Then the pppd process hangs (after successful mschap-v2 auth) with these
messages:

> Dec 23 10:28:46 sargon pppd[24127]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 192.168.0.40>]
> Dec 23 10:28:46 sargon pppd[24127]: Timeout 0x8050670:0x8078160 in 3 seconds.
> Dec 23 10:28:46 sargon pppd[24127]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <bsd v1 15>]
> Dec 23 10:28:46 sargon pppd[24127]: Timeout 0x8050670:0x80782a0 in 3 seconds.
> Dec 23 10:28:49 sargon pppd[24127]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 192.168.0.40>]
> Dec 23 10:28:49 sargon pppd[24127]: Timeout 0x8050670:0x8078160 in 3 seconds.
> Dec 23 10:28:49 sargon pppd[24127]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <bsd v1 15>]
> Dec 23 10:28:49 sargon pppd[24127]: Timeout 0x8050670:0x80782a0 in 3 seconds.
> Dec 23 10:28:52 sargon pppd[24127]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 192.168.0.40>]
> Dec 23 10:28:52 sargon pppd[24127]: Timeout 0x8050670:0x8078160 in 3 seconds.
> Dec 23 10:28:52 sargon pppd[24127]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <bsd v1 15>]
> Dec 23 10:28:52 sargon pppd[24127]: Timeout 0x8050670:0x80782a0 in 3 seconds.
> Dec 23 10:28:55 sargon pppd[24127]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 192.168.0.40>]
> Dec 23 10:28:55 sargon pppd[24127]: Timeout 0x8050670:0x8078160 in 3 seconds.

Is the server asking the client for BSD compression and the client not
responding?

Thanks in advance for any help, and merry XMas.

-- 
Louis-David Mitterrand - mito at aparima.com - http://www.aparima.com

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