[pptp-server] PPTP[6095] error

[Rick Matlock]

I am also seeing these same error messages, and symptoms.  Syslog ends up
taking 70-80% of the CPU writing these things out, and I get about 150 megs
a day of this (with a single host).

I am using pptpd 0.9.11 and ppp-2.3.8.

  Rick


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Swan [mailto:cswan at connectria.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 3:17 PM
> To: pptp-server at lists.schulte.org
> Subject: [pptp-server] PPTP[6095] error
> 
> 
>     Finally got the pptpd to work correctly, but...it's slow!  After I
> finally got my routing issues straightened out (or so I think), once I
> start doing transfers of large amounts of data, my linux box starts
> going nuts....the syslog is repeatedly dumping massive amounts of
> error messages to the logs in the form of:
> 
> Sep  7 14:02:00 rosebud pptpd[6095]: CTRL: EOF or bad error reading
> ctrl packet
> length.
> Sep  7 14:02:00 rosebud pptpd[6095]: CTRL: couldn't read packet header
> (exit)
> Sep  7 14:02:00 rosebud pptpd[6095]: CTRL: Unexpected control message
> 0 in disco
> nnect sequence
> 
>     I searched the archives and couldn't find any discussion of this
> error message.  Network transfers are painfully slow, and will usually
> abort before the entire operation completes.  Note that speed for
> clients on a local, 100mbit LAN averages about 300KB/s--but remote
> users on on cable modem connection can barely get any data
> through--the pipe seems to be idle most of the time.
> 
>     Using pptpd 0.9.14 and ppp 2.3.8.  Clients are Win98, Win98SE, or
> WinNT4 clients.
> 
> 
> 
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