[pptp-server] Ignored a SET LINK INFO

[Alaa AlAmood]

Thnak you very much
Alaa


David Luyer wrote:

>> Hi
>> 
>> What dose the following message means, in pptp log file
>> 
>> "Ignored a SET LINK INFO packet with real ACCMs"
> 
> 
> It means that you have a client using WIN2K :-)
> 
> Or, to be more precise, it means that the PPTP server ignored a packet of type 
> "SET LINK INFO" with real ACCM values.  ACCMs are used to specify character
> mappings due to unusable characters over links.  Which is all relatively
> unlikely given that the GRE is travelling over an IP link, perhaps you could 
> use it to make all +'s be escaped and prevent + + + A T H 0 disconnects...
> but it's not implemented in the current pptpd.  While you might think that
> it's a complete waste given that the pppd underneath has its own ACCMs, well,
> you might be right actually :-)  It's just like the flow control which isn't
> implemented in pptpd since it's a fundamentally flawed algorithm and all the
> protocols inside the pptpd tunnel will have flow control algorithms of their
> own anyway.
> 
> Read rfc2637 and look for some of the obvious errors people on this list
> e-mailed the authors about, such as section 3.1.2 which suggests in its
> ascii art diagram that a start ctl connection request should be used to
> stop a control connection (oops)... the authors of the draft ignored all
> input and went forward to produce an RFC which matched neither sanity nor
> existing implementations.
> 
> David.


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