[pptp-server] Stalling Connection

[Joakim Franzen]

We have been experiencing something similar. If the pptp server has to
work hard (90-100% of CPU) for a longer period of time it dies and
shortly after ssh connections go dead as well. I still run ver 1.0 so I
will try version 1.1.1 that came out a while back hopefully that will
solve this problem. 

//Joakim

Yan Seiner wrote:
> 
> 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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