[pptp-server] NT error 718: timeout?

[tmk]

looks like your firewall is rejecting something. check your filtering rules

also, debug has been removed, and you should put in a range of possible
ip's.

check the sample conf file that came with 0.8.6

Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: Gunnar Hellekson <gunnar at trilux.com>
To: <pptp-server at lists.schulte.org>
Sent: Friday, May 28, 1999 6:13 PM
Subject: [pptp-server] NT error 718: timeout?


> I'm working off linux 2.0.36, pppd 2.3.5, pptpd 0.8.6 from the RPM,
> and NT 4.0 sp4 as a client.
>
> pppd and the NT RAS client seem to talk to each other perfectly well, but
the
> pppd doesn't seem to be responding to the client's password.  It happens
> regardless of the IPs I'm using, and the password auth. on NT is set to
allow
> cleartext.  Any pointers?
>
> Here's the pptpd.conf (suggested elsewhere on the list):
>
> debug 1                 # this didn't increase verbosity... should it?
> localip 192.168.0.234
> remoteip 192.168.0.235
> speed 115200
>
>
> The /etc/ppp/options:
>
> local
> lock
> debug
>
> and the chap-secret:
> user pptp-server        password *
>
> Here's my syslog, with the added benefit of the packet filter's logs.
> The rejected UDP packets don't seem to matter, as allowing them through
> still yields the same error:
>
> May 28 20:51:46 firewall kernel: IP fw-in acc eth0 TCP <remote-ip>:1046
<server-ip>:1723 L=44 S=0x1C I=21249 F=0x0040 T=117
> May 28 20:51:46 firewall kernel: IP fw-in rej eth0 UDP <remote-ip>:137
<server-ip>:137 L=78 S=0x00 I=22017 F=0x0000 T=117
> May 28 20:51:47 pptpd-server pppd[8036]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0
> May 28 20:51:47 pptpd-server pppd[8036]: Using interface ppp0
> May 28 20:51:47 pptpd-server pppd[8036]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttya0
> May 28 20:51:48 firewall kernel: IP fw-in rej eth0 UDP <remote-ip>:137
<server-ip>:137 L=78 S=0x00 I=23297 F=0x0000 T=117
> May 28 20:51:49 firewall kernel: IP fw-in rej eth0 UDP <remote-ip>:137
<server-ip>:137 L=78 S=0x00 I=23809 F=0x0000 T=117
>
> # right about here, NT complains "Error 718: Timed out waiting for a valid
response from the remote PPP peer"
>
> May 28 20:52:17 pptpd-server pppd[8036]: LCP: timeout sending
Config-Requests
> May 28 20:52:17 pptpd-server pppd[8036]: Connection terminated.
> May 28 20:52:17 pptpd-server pppd[8036]: Exit.
> May 28 20:53:58 pptpd-server kernel: PPP: ppp line discipline successfully
unregistered
>
>
> --
> Gunnar Hellekson                     t r i l u x  i n t e r n e t  g r o u
p
>   RIP is irrelevant. Spoofing is futile. Your routes will be aggregated.
>
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