[pptp-server] First time error

[Gord Belsey]

Bjarke:

Here's myn guess.  On the client, check /var/run/pptp.  The client (or at
least the one I use....by C. S. Ananian) creates a file in their named for
the IP address of the server.  However, it doesn't clen it up when it dies,
fails or is brought down in any way.  When you try to fire up the client
again, you get the socket in use error.  I added a line in
/etc/ppp/ip-down.local to remove this file when pptp's ppp interface goes
down.

On the server side, I added lcp-echo-failure 10 and lcp-echo-interval 1 to
/etc/ppp/options.  This says "no response after 1 second = failure" and "10
failures means link is dead...close it".  You can adjust the numbers, but I
found this cleans up the server side so it's ready to accept a new
connection from that client.

Basically, PoPToP and the pptp client is good stuff, but it was up to me to
write scripts to do clean up, and to start, restart and stop a client
connection.    Note that I'm still running PoPToP 1.0.0, so your mileage may
vary.

Hope this helps

Gord Belsey

----- Original Message -----
From: Bjarke Bruun <bbj at hhknet.dk>
To: <pptp-server at lists.schulte.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 5:10 AM
Subject: [pptp-server] First time error


> Hi, I'm new on list and to VPN that has not already been setup by
> someone else.
>
> I have installed the pptp server and the pptp-linux client on a client,
> but I can't get a connection, that is a working one.
>
> I get this error message from the server:
>
> -----
> Dec 12 12:58:49 server pptpd[2643]: CTRL: Client X.X.X.X control
> connection started
> Dec 12 12:58:49 server pptpd[2643]: CTRL: EOF or bad error reading ctrl
> packet length.
> Dec 12 12:58:49 server pptpd[2643]: CTRL: couldn't read packet header
> (exit)
> Dec 12 12:58:49 server pptpd[2643]: CTRL: CTRL read failed
> -----
> and from the client, wheter I only put the hostname or any of the other
> pppd options as a paramete:
>
> -----
> warn[open_unixsock:pptp_callmgr.c:308]: Call manager for Y.Y.Y.Y is
> already running.
> fatal[callmgr_main:pptp_callmgr.c:124]: Could not open unix socket for
> Y.Y.Y.Y
> fatal[launch_callmgr:pptp.c:213]: Call manager exited with error 256
> -----
>
> The main two things that I can't understand is thet the client says that
> a call manager is already running, because the client exits and leaves
> no running or hanging processes (and I have waited for netstat to report
> that the 1723 port is not in use) and the second is that the server says
> that is gets a bad EOF/error reading what ever the client is sending.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions to what it might be ?
>
> my first server was pptp version 1.1.1 but problem is exactly the same
> with 1.0.0 version. Pptp-linux version is 1.0.2.
>
> Any help appriciated
>
> --
> Bjarke Bruun - E-mail: bbj at hhknet.dk http://linux.hhknet.dk
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