[pptp-server] Logging fills my disks up

Jerry Vonau jvonau at home.com
Thu Dec 27 08:16:43 CST 2001


Jorge:

The patch, I believe is to allow multiple pptp client to be
masq'ed. 
I don't think it is required for a pptp server, only on a
masq-ing 
gateway. Try not loading the masq_pptp module and see what
happends.
If I'm wrong someone please correct me.


Jerry Vonau




Jorge Santos wrote:
> 
> Hi
> I have a poptop 1.0.1 server running on red hat 7.2 with kernel 2.4.15 with
> netfilter_pptp_2_4_15 patch. The problem is, it fiils up my
> /var/log/messages. I tried taking out "debug" from /etc/pptpd.conf but it
> keeps logging.
> 
> This is the kind of logs I get:
> 
> grey kernel: ip_outbound_pptp_tcp(): OUT_CALL_REQUEST, CT=cc60f560, CID=3365
> Dec 23 04:31:26 grey pptpd[8006]: CTRL: Starting call (launching pppd,
> opening GRE)
> Dec 23 04:31:26 grey kernel: pptp_help: bad csum: cf52a8bc 18412
> 212.54.136.4 212.113.180.244
> Dec 23 04:31:26 grey kernel: inbound_pptp_tcp(): CT=cc60f560,
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx LEN=32 TY=1 MC=1A2B3C4D CID=0 PCID=3365
> CTL=OUT_CALL_REPLY
> Dec 23 04:31:26 grey kernel: put_gre_tuple(): Master=cc60f560 tuple
> c91a4548: 47 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0 -> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:3365
> Dec 23 04:31:26 grey kernel: put_gre_tuple(): Master=cc60f560 tuple
> c91a45a8: 47 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:3365 -> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0
> Dec 23 04:31:26 grey kernel: put_gre_tuple(): Master=cc60f560 tuple
> c91a44e8: 47 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:3365 -> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0
> Dec 23 04:31:26 grey kernel: put_gre_tuple(): Master=cc60f560 tuple
> c91a4508: 47 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0 -> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:3365
> Dec 23 04:31:26 grey kernel: pptp: failed to register conntrack protocol
> GRE!
> Dec 23 04:31:26 grey pppd[8007]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
> Dec 23 04:31:26 grey kernel: pptp_help: bad csum: c8eb2c14 16364
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> Dec 23 04:31:26 grey kernel: outbound_pptp_tcp(): CT=cc60f560,
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx LEN=24 TY=1 MC=1A2B3C4D PCID=0
> CTL=SET_LINK_INFO
> 
> How can I prevent syslog from logging this?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
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