[pptp-server] RE: MPPE Solved !!!NOT AAARGGH!!!... don't know how but SOLVED t hat matters...

[George Vieira]

AArgh... second time connection fails now... Damn this thing...
I'm getting failed to register PPP device... I guess that's a bad thing
right.. ;-)

Jun 21 12:14:38 firewall pppd[1137]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
Jun 21 12:14:38 firewall pppd[1137]: Using interface ppp0
Jun 21 12:14:38 firewall pppd[1137]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1
Jun 21 12:14:38 firewall pptpd[1136]: CTRL: Ignored a SET LINK INFO packet
with real ACCMs!
Jun 21 12:14:39 firewall kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the
University of California
Jun 21 12:14:39 firewall kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.1
Jun 21 12:14:39 firewall kernel: failed to register PPP device (-16)
Jun 21 12:14:39 firewall kernel: PPP MPPE compression module registered
Jun 21 12:14:39 firewall pppd[1137]: MSCHAP-v2 peer authentication succeeded
for georgev
Jun 21 12:14:42 firewall pppd[1137]: found interface eth0 for proxy arp
Jun 21 12:14:42 firewall pppd[1137]: local  IP address 10.10.0.254
Jun 21 12:14:42 firewall pppd[1137]: remote IP address 10.10.0.97
Jun 21 12:14:42 firewall pppd[1137]: Modem hangup
Jun 21 12:14:42 firewall pppd[1137]: Connection terminated.
Jun 21 12:14:42 firewall pppd[1137]: Connect time 0.1 minutes.
Jun 21 12:14:42 firewall pppd[1137]: Sent 179 bytes, received 231 bytes.
Jun 21 12:14:42 firewall pptpd[1136]: GRE: read error: Bad file descriptor
Jun 21 12:14:42 firewall pptpd[1136]: CTRL: PTY read or GRE write failed
(pty,gre)=(-1,-1)
Jun 21 12:14:42 firewall pptpd[1136]: CTRL: Client 10.10.0.69 control
connection finished

-----Original Message-----
From: George Vieira 
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 12:03 PM
To: PPTP List (E-mail)
Subject: MPPE Solved... don't know how but SOLVED that matters...


I have no idea what happened but I did it again thrid time around and it
worked.

Jun 21 12:01:03 firewall pppd[29891]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/2
Jun 21 12:01:03 firewall pptpd[29890]: CTRL: Ignored a SET LINK INFO packet
with real ACCMs!
Jun 21 12:01:07 firewall kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the
University of California
Jun 21 12:01:07 firewall kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.1
Jun 21 12:01:07 firewall kernel: failed to register PPP device (-16)
Jun 21 12:01:07 firewall kernel: PPP MPPE compression module registered
Jun 21 12:01:07 firewall pppd[29891]: MSCHAP-v2 peer authentication
succeeded for georgev
Jun 21 12:01:10 firewall pppd[29891]: found interface eth0 for proxy arp
Jun 21 12:01:10 firewall pppd[29891]: local  IP address 10.10.0.121
Jun 21 12:01:10 firewall pppd[29891]: remote IP address 10.10.0.97

Locally anyway but it's a start. So Kernel 2.4.5 and PPD 2.4.1 work fine.!!!

thanks to those who tried suggesting a solution (even though half were
already tried)....

thanks,
George Vieira
Network Engineer
Citadel Computer Systems P/L