[pptp-server] Stalling Connection

[Yan Seiner]

I ran into this last night.  It was weird; I was in the midst of a
medium download (~200K) and the line stopped dead...

I still had the ssh connection, so I killed pptp and restarted; no
dice.  Shortly thereafter, the ssh connection went dead.  Came in this
morning; the pppd daemon had died.

Anyway, poptop is not quite ready for prime time :-( .  (Or maybe it's
MS that's not ready...)

I was connecting from a Win95 box with DUN 1.3.  Apparently, there is
also some issue with the Windows TCP/IP stack getting corrupted; I don't
know which causes which.  After the ssh connection went dead, I could no
longer even ping the internet, although my dial-up was still up.  A
reboot solved the problem.

Let me know what if anything I can do to help.  I need to get this
running rock solid in the next 3 months.

--Yan

tmk wrote:
> 
> you might want to try the developers version that is going around.. we think
> we fixed some of the problems relating to link degredation, but we're still
> testing.. we'd love your input
> 
> if you are going over a modem, try setting the speed to 38400 instead of the
> default 115200.. that is done in the pptpd.conf file or on the command
> line.. it is easy to flood a modem line, and the pptp daemon has no way of
> determining line speed.
> 
> Kevin
> 
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