[pptp-server] Error 619 with W2k

[Chris Wood]

I have been running PoPToP for about a year and am finally frustrated
enough with one thing that I am in search of help.  I have about 5 users
connecting to the PoPToP server using mostly Win98 and one user using
W2k.  

All of these machine work perfectly, except for my own home machine which
is also a W2k machine.  When I originally setup PoPToP it worked great.  
Now, it will fail to connect about 90% of the time.  Every now and then it
will connect just fine.  Once it fails to connect though, it won't connect
at all if I keep retrying or even if I wait 20 minutes.  Something has to
have changed with my home machine, but I cannot figure out what it is.  I
used my home machine for testing when I installed the PoPToP software, so
I'm baffled why it won't play nice now.

My setup:  DSL connection via NAT, Windows 2000 with all of the latest
updates.  PoPToP server is a Debian box with full patches for all the
encryption security options for PoPToP.  Server is not on the same ISP as
my DSL.

I've wondered if it is related to timeouts or anything.  Even rebooting my
pc, rebooting the Server or rebooting my DSL router doesn't fix it.  What
is most frustrating is that it DOES work sometimes.

Does anyone have any ideas?  I'm going to be adding another 10 users to
this setup, and suspect I may run into this... it also makes it much
harder to work from home.  Can anyone suggest what to look at?

--log--

Feb 17 04:09:10 gateway pppd[7345]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
Feb 17 04:09:10 gateway pppd[7345]: Using interface ppp0
Feb 17 04:09:10 gateway pppd[7345]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1
Feb 17 04:09:40 gateway pppd[7345]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Feb 17 04:09:40 gateway pppd[7345]: Connection terminated.
Feb 17 04:09:40 gateway pppd[7345]: Exit.


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