[pptp-server] Continuing problem, and a clue?

[Daniel Slatford]

I still can't get a connection up and running, but this dialogue is common
to every connection attempt regardless of configuration (Well, providing it
can get this far) :

Jun 25 01:05:03 server pppd[7282]: ipcp: up
Jun 25 01:05:03 server pppd[7282]: Could not determine local IP address
Jun 25 01:05:03 server pppd[7282]: ipcp: down
Jun 25 01:05:03 server pppd[7282]: sent [IPCP TermReq id=0x4 "Could not
determine local IP address"]
Jun 25 01:05:03 server pppd[7282]: Timeout 0x8050b20:0x807a4e0 in 3 seconds.
Jun 25 01:05:04 server pppd[7282]: rcvd [IPCP TermAck id=0x4]
Jun 25 01:05:04 server pppd[7282]: Untimeout 0x8050b20:0x807a4e0.
Jun 25 01:05:04 server pppd[7282]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x5 "No network
protocols running"]
Jun 25 01:05:04 server pppd[7282]: Timeout 0x8050b20:0x807a280 in 3 seconds.
Jun 25 01:05:04 server pppd[7282]: rcvd [LCP TermAck id=0x5]
Jun 25 01:05:04 server pppd[7282]: Untimeout 0x8050b20:0x807a280.
Jun 25 01:05:04 server pppd[7282]: Connection terminated.

This is after the client has been authorised, ms-wins and ms-dns servers
assigned, etc. pptpd then moans about PTY read or GRE write failure. I'm
fairly sure this is the problem - does anyone with a working setup get this
error from pppd (with debugging on)?

Running pptpd 1.0.0, pppd with mschap/mppe patch (still does the same
without it), 2.2.16 and seawall firewall 3.1, on suse 6.4. I dial out with a
modem and pppd, but use seperate pppd options files of course. pptpd 1.1.1
didn't solve the problem. Any clues to anyone?

ipchains ruleset includes this on a custom chain (defined by seawall) :

target     prot opt     source                destination           ports
ACCEPT     gre  ------  anywhere             <my ppp0 IP>        n/a

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