[pptp-server] pptp server - not cleaning up after itself when pppd exits

[Jerry Vonau]

Hi Ron:

I see the same problem, the pptp client disconnects, then re-connects.
Instead of picking the same ppp interface, it jumps to the next avaible one.

I think you have the same problem, except you have only one pair of ip's
available.
It what I tried on the server, after the disconect, kill the ppp0.pid and
then
do an ifconfig ppp0 down, ifconfig ppp0 up. this seems to correct the
problem for me.
To make it automatic, prehaps a ping program, that whould run the commands
when it
can't ping the other side.

Jerry



Ron Cresswell wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions here? I have a linux client connecting
> to a linux server (PoPTop). The connection seems to be ok, but after a
> while pppd drops the line as a timeout. Now this wouldn't be so bad if
> pptpd cleaned up after itself, because I want to re-establish the
> connection straight away from the client end, and that means the server
> being ready to accept the same connection again... What I get at the
> server end is the message
>
> No free connection slots or IPs available - no more clients can connect!
>
> Anyone know what this means? Or how to "clean up" the server without
> executing the mother-of-all cleanup commands, "reboot"?
>
> Miscellaneous info-
>
> The only lines (that aren't commented out) in my /etc/pptp.conf file
> are:
>
> localip 203.7.194.159
> remoteip 203.7.194.34
>
> which are fictional IP addresses on my subnets but are officially
> allocated, and the connection does use them. Are there other options
> that need to be put here?
>
> My ppp.options file has the following entries:
> lock
> debug
> auth
> +chap
> proxyarp
>
> And that's it. Any ideas where to look next?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ron
>
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