[pptp-server] installing pptpd

[Chris Tooley]

Alternatively there is my HOWTO for just this subject (Installing on
Redhat 7.2) at http://www.thetooleys.org/pptp/

Even if you didn't use the XFS installers, the kernels that are there
are fine, they just give you the added benefit of _also_ using XFS is
you so choose in the future.

Chris Tooley

On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 20:12, aleksey zakharov wrote:
> 
> Hello, I have found your document on http://www.advancevpn.com/en/download_other.html, thank you it seems very helpful. I am trying to set up a PoPtop server on a linux redhat 7.2 system. I followed the exact instructions as you mentioned in your article, but I am still little bit confused. this is what i have done:
> 
> 1) Unziped all the tars (clean linux-2.4.16, ppp-2.4.1 and pptpd-1.1.2) to /usr/src and appled the patches by using the following:
> 
> [/usr/src] gzip -d < linux-2.4.16-openssl-0.9.6b-mppe.patch.gz | patch -p0
> [/usr/src] gzip -d < ppp-2.4.1-openssl-0.9.6-mppe-patch.gz | patch -p0
> 
> 
> then in step 2 you mention: 
> 
> Configure and make everything. Make sure to include everything that is PPP related from "Network device support". (PPP and PPTPd work with plain ./configure; make; make install)
> 
> what i did was: ./configured; make make install;    both ppp and pptpd
> 
> But I am not sure if i need to compile the whole  linux-2.4.16 kernel before or after. Can you please be more specific in step 2 and describe the step by step process. 
> 
> Thank you very much for your support.
> 
> 
> 
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