[pptp-server] PPTP linux client with PoPToP

[Kenneth E. Lussier]

Gareth,

Can you give me more info off of the list? What I would like to see is
the *EXACT* commands that you are using for the route add. The route
command below looks a little incorrect. I use a net route rather than a
host route (as below), and the Linux client works fine for me. 

ex: route add -net 10.0.0.0 (my subnet at work) gw 10.100.0.2 (internal
interface of my pptp server) netmask 255.0.0.0 (anything going to
10.x.x.x) dev ppp0 (or ppp1, ppp2, whatever the pptp device is). 

Kenny


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Kenny Lussier
Systems Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
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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
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