[pptp-server] Win98 and SuSE Linux PPTPD server problems

Nick Jones nickj at coho.net
Sat Oct 9 17:34:04 CDT 1999


Hi everyone.  I just can't seem to get this to work no matter what I do...  Below is everything that gets logged when I try to connect from my Win98 machine.

Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[24634]: MGR: Launching /usr/local/sbin/pptpctrl to handle client
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[24634]: CTRL: local address = 192.168.0.101
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[24634]: CTRL: remote address = 192.168.0.201
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[24634]: CTRL: pppd options file = /etc/pptpd.options
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[24634]: CTRL: Client 192.168.0.2 control connection started
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[24634]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type: 1)
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[24634]: CTRL: Made a START CTRL CONN RPLY packet
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[24634]: CTRL: I wrote 156 bytes to the client.
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[24634]: CTRL: Sent packet to client
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[24634]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type: 7)
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[24634]: CTRL: Set parameters to 0 maxbps, 16 window size
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[24634]: CTRL: Made a OUT CALL RPLY packet
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[24634]: CTRL: Starting call (launching pppd, opening GRE)
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[24634]: CTRL: Allocating pty/tty pair
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[24634]: CTRL: Allocated pty/tty pair (/dev/ptyp4,/dev/ttyp4)
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[24634]: CTRL: pty_fd = 6
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[24634]: CTRL: tty_fd = 7
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[24635]: CTRL (PPPD Launcher): Connection speed = 115200
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[24635]: CTRL (PPPD Launcher): local address = 192.168.0.101
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[24635]: CTRL (PPPD Launcher): remote address = 192.168.0.201
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[24634]: CTRL: I wrote 32 bytes to the client.
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[24634]: CTRL: Sent packet to client
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[24634]: GRE: read(fd=6,buffer=8064fb8,len=8196) from PTY failed: status = -1 error = I/O error
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[24634]: CTRL: PTY read or GRE write failed (pty,gre)=(6,7)
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[24634]: CTRL: Client 192.168.0.2 control connection finished
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[24634]: CTRL: Exiting now
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pptpd[4064]: MGR: Reaped child 24634
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pppd[24636]: pppd 2.3.7 started by root, uid 0
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pppd[24636]: tcsetattr: Invalid argument
Oct  9 15:45:35 Router pppd[24636]: Exit.


I'm not sure how to fix it or what to do first.  If someone could help that'd be great. Thanks.
-Nick
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