[pptp-server] PPTP Setup problem

[Neale Banks]

On Mon, 7 May 2001, Justin wrote:

> I'm working on setting up VPN with poptop on my server.  I ran through the
> howto on the website.  Then when I try having win2k connect to the server.
> I ran through the tutorial located at
> http://poptop.lineo.com/releases/win2k.doc.gz to try to have it connect.
> (top to bottom of course) It connects, and tries verifying password.  Thats
> where it sits then drops connection.
> 
> I checked my logfile and heres what it spits out for the session
> 
> ----------------
> May  7 18:58:34 shift pptpd[1888]: CTRL: Client 206.11.239.85 control
> connection started
> May  7 18:58:34 shift pptpd[1888]: CTRL: Starting call (launching pppd,
> opening GRE)
> May  7 18:58:34 shift pppd[1889]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
> May  7 18:58:34 shift pppd[1889]: Using interface ppp0
> May  7 18:58:34 shift pppd[1889]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/3
> May  7 18:58:34 shift pppd[1889]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0>
> <auth chap MD5> <magic 0x2e593c8e> <pcomp> <accomp>]
> May  7 18:59:01 shift last message repeated 9 times
> May  7 18:59:04 shift pppd[1889]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests

I'd hazard a guess that the GRE path is obstructed somewhere (at least
from caller to server, possibly both ways).

GRE of course being IP protocol 47 (not to be confused with port #s).

HTH,
Neale.