[pptp-server] Linux PPTP server and client

[Mark Komarinski]

Hooboy.  This has been a fun way to spend an evening.  Anyway, here's my setup:

Linux (Redhat 5.2) running as a masq server for my home network.
Linux (RH 6.0) running as firewall at the office - I think that's okay.
Linux (RH 6.0) running as pptp server (actually my desktop machine too).

I've been having no end of trouble getting CHAP configured for both sides,
so I pretty much gave up and turned all authentication off.

"But Mark,"  you say, "you're nuts!  Anyone can then get access to your
PPTP server and fiddle around your network!"

Ahh, but there you're wrong.  Because it doesn't work!

Both sides seem to get this error:

Jan 13 23:14:30 wayga pppd[2721]: rcvd [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <bsd v1 15>]
Jan 13 23:14:30 wayga pppd[2721]: sent [CCP ConfAck id=0x1 <bsd v1 15>]
Jan 13 23:14:30 wayga pppd[2721]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x3 <bsd v1 15>]
Jan 13 23:14:30 wayga pppd[2721]: rcvd [CCP ConfAck id=0x3 <bsd v1 15>]
Jan 13 23:14:30 wayga pppd[2721]: Received bad configure-ack:  15 03 2f
Jan 13 23:14:33 wayga pppd[2721]: CCP: timeout sending Config-Requests

That looks bad, don't it?

Any ideas on what it is?

What I would *like* to do is get the masq server running pptp client, so all my
home-network machines can access the work network.  Alternately, I guess I need
to run ipfwd on the masq server and forward packets directly to one machine?

-Mark