[pptp-server] MPPE died

[George Vieira]

Great thanks for that. Not restarting anything or rebooting as such but the
thing has started to work now??? Real weird.

I tried all sorts to get encryption to work and it wouldn't do it.. even
using linux as a pptp client wouldn't register the MPPE at connection.
After that day I happen to connect and it started!!! ARGH!.. damn it..

1 thing I noticed that I "rmmod ppp_mppe" and it pops back in within seconds
and yet reconnecting didn't work... later that day it starts to work
again... hmm...??


Hopefully one day pptpd will be shipped on these newer kernels.. yeah yeah
hint hint..

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


-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Kreger [mailto:lists at earthling.2y.net]
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 9:19 AM
To: George Vieira
Cc: PPTP List (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [pptp-server] MPPE died


Could be something in the module api that has changed between kernel
revisions.....  It would have been nice if MPPE was in the kernel tree so
it was ported.  Only thing I can recommend is somebody rip open the
ppp_mppe.c and add LOTS of debugging in... try and figure out what it's
doing when dying.  


Best bets, mppe_initialize_key or mppe_comp_init has a problem... I would
start there.

BTW, It's showing up as a module for you?  I upgraded a 2.2 to 2.4 box,
and it was compiled in......  This box that I have to go test 2.4 on it,
will be running 2.4.5 and pppd 2.4.1, I will let you know how it goes
tommarrow afternoon.  ( I did cat the system map, and it is compiled in
from what I can tell).

Justin Kreger, MCP MCSE CCNA
jkreger at earthling.2y.net jwkreger at uncg.edu justin at wss.net


On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, George Vieira wrote:

> 
> 
> Hey y'all,
> 
> Anybody having troubles where MPPE is registered in "lsmod" but not firing
> up anymore when connections come in? It was working until last night and
it
> seems to keep dying?
> 
> Kernel 2.4.5, pppd 2.4.1
> 
> thanks,
> George Vieira
> Network Engineer
> Citadel Computer Systems P/L
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