[pptp-server] Success with Kernel 2.4.17

[Charlie Brady]

On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Magnus von Koeller wrote:

> I can confirm the reports on this list that Kernels > 2.4.10 on a 
> Linux PPTP server (specifically, I tried the vanilla Linux Kernel 
> 2.4.17 with the MPPE patch for the 2.4.16 kernel applied) do work 
> also with linux pptp clients if the client loads the module "ip_gre" 
> or compiles that code into the kernel.

I have a hunch that adding:

alias net-pf-47 ip_gre

to /etc/modules.conf will cause the ip_gre module to be loaded on demand
by kerneld.

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