[pptp-server] High-Uptime with pptpd 1.0.1

[Justin Kreger]

I have seen that only once, and it was a fluke then....  I did however
soon afterwards goto pptpd 1.1.2.

What was really bad is that perticular server paged me at like 2:10 am :(

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


On Tue, 29 May 2001, Joshua M. Schmidlkofer wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
>   I have been testing a  redhat 7.1 <-> Win2k sp2 PPTP vpn.  It has 
> relatively low traffic [save for big db updates (50-100/meg at once)], 
> and is actually hooked up across a 100Mbps lan currently.   I have been 
> using it to test the robustness of MySQL's current 'replication' 
> abilities.   Various tests have gone well both for pptp & MySQL.   
> However, I have been testing the 'high-uptime' portion of things.   
> After about 10 or 12 days of operating I came in to day, and had a load 
> of the following messages in my syslog:
> 
> <snip>
> May 26 23:29:42 widmers pptpd[980]: CTRL: Unexpected control message 0 
> in disconnect sequence
> May 26 23:29:42 widmers pptpd[980]: CTRL: EOF or bad error reading ctrl 
> packet length.
> May 26 23:29:42 widmers pptpd[980]: CTRL: couldn't read packet header (exit)
> May 26 23:29:42 widmers pptpd[980]: CTRL: Unexpected control message 0 
> in disconnect sequence
> May 26 23:29:42 widmers pptpd[980]: CTRL: EOF or bad error reading ctrl 
> packet length.
> May 26 23:29:42 widmers pptpd[980]: CTRL: couldn't read packet header (exit)
> <snip>
> 
> When I say a lot, I mean 779 Meg.  I rushed to clear out some junk 
> before taking a serious look into where my space went.   It is just my 
> desktop so I have 'var' on my root volume.  Anyway, the VPN was still 
> running just fine, and everything was ok, but pptpctl was running at 
> like 70% cpu time, and had accumulated about 2000+ minutes of cpu time. 
>  ???  Anyway, I have no idea what would cause this, but anyone know?
> 
> 
> Redhat 7.1
> Vanilla Kernel 2.4.4 w/MPPE patches.
> Downloaded pppd from ... whatever that site is. [I am running 2.4.1] 
> w/ppp-2.4.1-openssl-0.9.6-mppe-patch
> pptpd 1.0.1
> 
> 
> 
> thanks,
>   Joshua
> 
> 
> 
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