[pptp-server] problems of ppp and pptp

Thu Nov 29 21:10:34 CST 2001

hi guys!

i have two problems.

1. the pptp server on my machine keeps posting some stupid messages : i
attached a file by name messages.txt
it keeps those messages posting to /var/log/messages, every 5 minutes.
and also, i get the messages " respawning pptpd too fast" on the STDOUT.

also, for my purpose, i need to post all debugging messages of the pptp,
seperately in to a different file( than /var/log/messages). can it be
done?

2. i applied the patches available at www.advancevpn.com/pub/ which are
meant for the encryption stuff of PPP.
I applied the patches to the kernel as well as the ppp . Then i complied
them both and booted from that image.
still, i am unable to make the link up from a win 98 client when i
enable data encryption. I get the error message on the client as
: "check your encryption settings".

please give me some ideas.
TIA
murali krishna vemuri

ps: i am attaching quite a few relevant files. please some one help me.
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#
# inittab       This file describes how the INIT process should set up
#               the system in a certain run-level.
#
# Author:       Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels at drinkel.nl.mugnet.org>
#               Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes
#

# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
#   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#   1 - Single user mode
#   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
#   3 - Full multiuser mode
#   4 - unused
#   5 - X11
#   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 
id:3:initdefault:

# System initialization.
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3
l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4
l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5
l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6

# Things to run in every runlevel.
ud::once:/sbin/update

# Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now

# When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes
# of power left.  Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now.
# This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your
# UPS connected and working correctly.  
pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down"

# If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it.
pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled"

#added by murali
7:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -x 3 ttyS0

# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6

# Run xdm in runlevel 5
# xdm is now a separate service
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
pptp:35:respawn:/usr/sbin/pptpd -f # pptpd-1.0.1-1
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Nov 30 08:30:23 yogi pptpd[21598]: MGR: Manager process started
Nov 30 08:30:23 yogi pptpd[21598]: MGR: Couldn't create host socket
Nov 30 08:30:23 yogi pptpd[21600]: MGR: Manager process started
Nov 30 08:30:23 yogi pptpd[21600]: MGR: Couldn't create host socket
Nov 30 08:30:23 yogi pptpd[21604]: MGR: Manager process started
Nov 30 08:30:23 yogi pptpd[21604]: MGR: Couldn't create host socket
Nov 30 08:30:23 yogi pptpd[21607]: MGR: Manager process started
Nov 30 08:30:23 yogi pptpd[21607]: MGR: Couldn't create host socket
Nov 30 08:30:23 yogi pptpd[21610]: MGR: Manager process started
Nov 30 08:30:23 yogi pptpd[21610]: MGR: Couldn't create host socket
Nov 30 08:30:23 yogi pptpd[21612]: MGR: Manager process started
Nov 30 08:30:23 yogi pptpd[21612]: MGR: Couldn't create host socket
Nov 30 08:30:23 yogi pptpd[21613]: MGR: Manager process started
Nov 30 08:30:23 yogi pptpd[21613]: MGR: Couldn't create host socket
Nov 30 08:30:23 yogi pptpd[21619]: MGR: Manager process started
Nov 30 08:30:23 yogi pptpd[21619]: MGR: Couldn't create host socket
Nov 30 08:30:23 yogi pptpd[21622]: MGR: Manager process started
Nov 30 08:30:23 yogi pptpd[21622]: MGR: Couldn't create host socket
Nov 30 08:30:23 yogi pptpd[21625]: MGR: Manager process started
Nov 30 08:30:23 yogi pptpd[21625]: MGR: Couldn't create host socket
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debug
lock
proxyarp
auth
login
require-chap
#require-pap
#asyncmap 0
10.110.2.1:10.110.2.3
mppe-40
mppe-128
+chapms
+chapms-v2
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+chap
+chapms
+chapms-v2
chapms-strip-domain
mppe-40
mppe-128
require-chap
require-mppe

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alias eth0 ne2k-pci 
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc 
alias usb-controller usb-uhci 
# Added by i810 install
alias char-major-10-175 agpgart 
alias char-major-107 3dfx 
alias ppp-compress-18 ppp_mppe
alias char-major-108 ppp_generic
alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic
alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async
alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty
alias ppp-compress-18 ppp_mppe
alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate