[pptp-server] Weird connection problem

[Andrew McRory]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Nate Carlson wrote:

> > looks to me like eth1 won't allow GRE OR the cable modem is not bridging
> > correctly... 
> > 
> 
> Yeah... my bet is that the cable modem is not translating it across the
> connection.. have you looked for any configuration options on it to allow
> you to configure what protocols are allowed through/filtered/etc? Also,
> just for the sake of experimentation, have you tried making and outgoing
> pptp connection from that Linux box to see if GRE will go across the
> connection? Another good troubleshooting step would be to use the GRE
> traceroute from the pptp server out to the internet..

Dooh! OK.

I just tried that and it worked all the way until it got back to my router
on the other side of my Cisco 2501! Here it is:

=========================================================================
17  XXXX  292.540 ms  309.350 ms 243.571 ms
18  XXXX  78.721 ms  80.244 ms  78.228 ms
19  XXXX  109.649 ms  106.649 ms  101.755 ms
20  XXXX  110.863 ms  105.008 ms 108.737 ms
21  XXXX  114.094 ms  110.537 ms  109.662 ms
22  * * *
23  * * *
24  * * *
25  * * *
26  * * *
27  * * *
28  * * *
29  * * *
30  * * *
=========================================================================

Would/Could this prevent connecting to the cable modem server?


Thanks,

Andrew McRory / CTO                                  amacc at iron-bridge.net
Iron Bridge Communications                             www.iron-bridge.net
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