[pptp-server] pptpd still not handling dropped connections properly?

[Seth Vidal]

> running, and the interfaces that are associated with them are still up as
> well.  Is there any way I can help debug this?
> 
> sprawl% ps ax | grep -i pp
>  6284 ?        S      0:00 PPTP Manager                                         
>  6439 ?        S      0:00 PPTP GRE 14 12 13
>  6440 ttya0    S      0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttya0 local 115200
> 172.17.0.1:172
>  7222 ?        S      0:00 PPTP GRE 20 18 19
>  7223 ttya2    S      0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttya2 local 115200
> 172.17.0.2:172
>  7262 ?        S      0:00 PPTP GRE 21 19 20
>  7263 ttya1    S      0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttya1 local 115200
> 172.17.0.1:172
>  7445 ?        S      0:00 PPTP GRE 23 21 22
>  7446 ttya3    S      0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttya3 local 115200
> 172.17.0.2:172
>  8758 ?        S      0:00 PPTP GRE 32 30 31
>  8759 ttya4    S      0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttya4 local 115200
> 172.17.0.2:172
>  8772 ?        S      0:00 PPTP GRE 34 32 33
>  8773 ttya5    S      0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttya5 local 115200
> 172.17.0.3:172
>  8793 ?        S      0:00 PPTP GRE 36 34 35
>  8794 ttya6    S      0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttya6 local 115200
> 172.17.0.4:172
>  8840 ?        S      0:00 PPTP CTRL Connection                                 
>  8843 ?        S      0:00 PPTP GRE 36 34 35
>  8844 ttya7    S      0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttya7 local 115200
> 172.17.0.2:172
>  8903 ?        S      0:00 PPTP GRE 41 39 40
>  8904 ttya8    S      0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttya8 local 115200
> 172.17.0.3:172

what does your /etc/ppp/options file look like?

mine has been dropping connections a-ok since I made some changes.

-sv