[pptp-server] Has anyone seen this error?

Charles Blackburn charlesb at summerfieldtechnology.co.uk
Wed Mar 22 16:27:14 CST 2000


On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Christopher Tarricone wrote:
> authenticate itself but I
> Mar 21 15:18:24 chaos pppd[3838]: couldn't find any suitable secret
> (password) for it to use to do so.
> Mar 21 15:18:24 chaos pptpd[3837]: GRE:
> read(fd=4,buffer=804d7e0,len=8196) from PTY failed: status = -1 error =
> Input/output error
> Mar 21 15:18:24 chaos pptpd[3837]: CTRL: PTY read or GRE write failed
> (pty,gre)=(4,5)
> Mar 21 15:18:24 chaos pptpd[3837]: CTRL: Client 63.89.28.221 control
> connection finished

Yes, I've been getting the same thing, check cap-secrets, check the win98
settings. I've managed to get around it by bypassing the authentication by
addid a noauth to /etc/ppp/options file instead of the auth line that is
reccommended.

I haven't found another way around it.

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