[pptp-server] PPTP linux client with PoPToP

[Alaa Alamood]

Can you give me the log err and the debug results

regards
Alaa

Gareth Marlow wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 09:00:45AM +0200, Alaa Alamood wrote:
> >
> > 1- get a copy of linux pptp client
>
> Done.
>
> > 2- install ppp with mschap 128 bit supported
>
> Done.
>
> > 3- Client configuration
>
> <snip> Done
>
> >      - Manul connection (just for test resone)
> >             - pptp  PPTP_SERVER_IP_ADDRESS name YOUR_USER_NAME remotename
> > PPTP_SERVER_NAME
> >             - route add -host PPTP_SERVER_IP_ADDRESS  gw
> > YOUR_GATEWAY_IP_ADDRESS
>
> Done
>
> >      - check you connections is made
> >             ps -ef |grep pptp
>
> I get the 3 processes: the call manager, the GRE gateway and the ppp1
> process which is invoked.
>
> I get a successful connect message in /var/log/messages showing that the
> correct IP addresses have been allocated and MPPE 128 bit compression is
> being used.
>
> It all looks fine.
>
> BUT when I try to ping, traceroute or telnet to anything through the link
> I'm unsuccessful.
>
> The proxyarp stuff is working at the server end for 95/98/2000 clients so
> I don't think that's the problem. I can tear down the link and connect
> with 98 with the same username and password no problem.
>
> One thing I did notice is that when I bring down this PPTP connection,
> there is a very large number of bytes logged as transferred on the client
> side - 10MB in a couple of minutes (this is obviously an error as the
> modem cannot sustain that transfer rate.
>
> I even tried rolling back to ppp-2.3.8 on the client to see if that would
> help but it hasn't.
>
> I'm on the verge of giving up on pptp for linux-linux VPN unless someone
> can help me :(
>
> Gareth