Antwort: RE: [pptp-server] pptp connection with encryption an d kernel 2.4. 0

[Cowles, Steve]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: werner.hofer at igs.at [mailto:werner.hofer at igs.at]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 11:22 AM
> To: Cowles, Steve; pptp-server at lists.schulte.org
> Subject: Antwort: RE: [pptp-server] pptp connection with 
> encryption and
> kernel 2.4. 0
> 
> 
> After I made an alias on my eth0 interface (192.168.1.1) 
> proxyarp should work since i can find an entry in the arp
> table for my pptp client. Thanks for your advise Steve.

You should see a similar entry in your log files when your PPTP server can
successfuly set (determine) the proxyarp device for your connection.

Mar 26 12:11:59 firewall pppd[5226]: found interface eth0 for proxy arp

> 
> But still I can´t get a ping through the pptp tunnel. I even 
> can´t ping the Server´s end of the tunnel.

If you are unable to ping the PPTP server (with data encryption disabled)
then I would think this is a routing/iptables problem. If you are unable
able to ping the PPTP server (with "just" data encryption enabled) then I
would think your problem is with MPPE.

> 
> I did the iptables entries mentioned at the pptp-howto below 
> and I do have the entries in my modules.conf. Even my module
> ppp_mppe loads without any error.

Unfortunately (due to my requirements), I have not converted to the 2.4.x
kernels and iptables, so I cannot offer much help in this area. 

My main reason for NOT using the new kernels/iptables is: