[pptp-server] Windows XP and ACCMs possible problem.

[Josh Howlett]

Oddly, I had connection problems with the betas, but none with the
final release.

Linux 2.4.10
PoPToP 1.1.2
PPPD 2.4.1

josh.

On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Chris Kennedy wrote:

> We cannot get a PPTP connection in Windows XP to pass
> data, it will connect but just be a dead link.  The odd
> thing I notice is that the logs say... 
>  'CTRL: Ignored a SET LINK INFO packet with real ACCMs!'
> I then modified the code to print out the SET_LINK_INFO
> fields values, which were 'send_accm = 0 recv_accm = ffffffff'
> and it says this in the code if they aren't both 0xffffffff.
> I can see in the RFC that this setting can set other options
> for the connection, which seems to have not been used in 
> Microsoft Clients until XP (and seems to be a Win2000K patch
> that gets it into this broken state too).  I am not sure where
> to go with this, maby someone with much more knowledge of
> this on the list can see more into what this all means, maby 
> this is just another error, and something else is broken in
> XP's PPTP support.  It seemed to work for users with XP betas,
> up until the final release, where it broke first.  Also another
> interesting thing is if you setup 40bit encryption only on the
> PPTP server, it barely works, like a few lines of the HTTP headers
> then the packets stop, just a dribble of a connection.  We are using
> the following (tried it on poptop1.0.1 too)...
> 
> PPTP PopTop 1.1.2
> Linux Kernel 2.4.2
> PPPD 2.4.0
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris 
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Josh Howlett, Network Supervisor,
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University of Bristol, U.K.
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