[pptp-server] bad protocol from pptpd

Luc Stepniewski lstep at mail.dotcom.fr
Sat Nov 6 10:58:02 CST 1999


Hello,

I'm trying to use pptpd 1.0.0 with ppp-2.3.10 but when I have a win98 box
trying to connect on the pptpd server, I get two errors (which may be
related ?):

In syslog, I see I have a "modprobe: can't locate module char-major-108".
Looking in the /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Device.txt, I see that 
char-major-108 corresponds to "Device independent PPP interface", /dev/ppp.
I don't have /dev/ppp, but I have the ppp module correctly loaded in
memory:

root at home /dev]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
ppp                    20012   1  (autoclean)
slhc                    4328   0  (autoclean) [ppp]

The second error (and the one that stops the win98 from connecting, is a
"ICMP message type destination unreachable - bad protocol from 210.27.15.119 (210.27.15.119->62.20.91.232)", where 62.20.91.232 is my pptpd server.

Are the two errors related ? What are the required kernel modules options
that need to be compiled to make pptpd work correctly ? (I'm using a 2.2.12
kernel).

Thanks,
Luc





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