[pptp-server] linux client encryption

[CELSE Frederic - GRE]

Daniell Freed wrote:
> 
> Has anyone figured out what is going on with this?  I have hit the
> same problems, and would really like to get the pptp linux client to
> work with encryption.
> 

Thanks to Matthias Oepen, here is the solution :

>Digging a little bit more in the PPTP-sourcecode, I found a priority problem 
>in ccp.c. When "deflate" isn't explicitly forbidden it will overwrite 
>mppe-options. 
>
>My proposal: 
>
>add       deflate 0   in /etc/ppp/options (on the client-site)


>I have to specify "mtu" and "mru" in /etc/ppp/options/.
>
>Otherwise I get the following kernel-debug-message:
>
>  kernel: Not enough space to encrypt packet: 1504<1504+4!
>
>I set:
>
>       mtu 1490
>       mru 1490
>
> and now everything seems to be perfekt.

Regards.

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