[pptp-server] Problems with PPTP Client connecting to PPTPD (long)

Michael McCallum mmc at hardware-one.com
Mon Dec 3 03:02:44 CST 2001


----- Original Message -----
From: "Magnus von Koeller" <magnus at vonkoeller.de>
To: "Michael McCallum" <mmc at hardware-one.com>
Cc: <pptp-server at lists.schulte.org>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: [pptp-server] Problems with PPTP Client connecting to PPTPD
(long)

Hi Magnus,

> On Monday 03 December 2001 04:00, you wrote:
> > 1) Linux kernel 2.4.14
>
> It's kernel related.
>
> This is kind of a known problem. There have been reports of setups
> working with kernels <= 2.4.10 but I'm not sure if they really ever
> tested them with Linux clients.
>
> I don't know of any solution, though. Newer kernels just don't work
> for Linux clients. Somebody here posted a patch to the pptp client or
> server that didn't make sense to me that was supposed to fix it but I
> didn't try it. I'm still running 2.4.2 (!) on my server for that
> reason. This really sucks but what can I do? Please tell me if you
> get this working.
>
> I tried 2.4.12-ac5 on my server and at least that kernel didn't work.

Oh dear. I will try to downgrade the kernel to a lower revision (and
hopefully one without the 'ptrace' root exploit) and see if they work.
Currently core files are being dumped by pptp whenever it fails to connect
with the server. Need to get this fix soon, else I would have to use a W2K
client machine to connect to the Linux server...

Thanks for the help!





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