[pptp-server] Connection performance degrading over time

[Mike Crowe]

Clients can connect to our PPTP server and log in fine using MPPE 128 bit
encryption from Windows 2000 and Windows Me clients. Once connected
performance gradually degrades (dropped packets) until after a few hundred
kilobytes no more data is transferred. The indicator in the system tray
continues to light up. Nothing interesting appears to be written to the
logs.

I've looked through some of the mailing list archives and the FAQ but
couldn't see anything related.

We're running pptpd-1.0.0, ppp-2.3.10, ppp-2.3.10-openssl-norc4-mppe.patch,
Linux kernel 2.2.17 on a RedHat 6.0 system. Is it worth upgrading ppp, which
is the currently recommended version that applies cleanly (or with minimal
tweaking)?

TIA

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Mike Crowe
empeg ltd