[pptp-server] PPTP Stuck in loop

[Andrew McRory]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Dave  Mills wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> I'm running pptpd on FREEBSD and every so often, the pptpd process seems to
> loop with the following error messages :
> 
> Mar 27 16:00:01 DSCUSGW0 pptpd[50196]: CTRL: Unexpected control message 0 in
> disconnect sequence
> Mar 27 16:00:01 DSCUSGW0 pptpd[50196]: CTRL: EOF or bad error reading ctrl
> packet length.
> Mar 27 16:00:01 DSCUSGW0 pptpd[50196]: CTRL: couldn't read packet header
> (exit)
> Mar 27 16:00:01 DSCUSGW0 pptpd[50196]: CTRL: Unexpected control message 0 in
> disconnect sequence
> Mar 27 16:00:01 DSCUSGW0 pptpd[50196]: CTRL: EOF or bad error reading ctrl
> packet length.

Hi,

This same thing happened to me last night on a linux box. The errors
were generated at the rate of 200 per second and between the crashed pptpd
and syslog the load average went over 2.00 until I killed pptpd.

TIA,

Andrew McRory / President                            amacc at iron-bridge.net
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