[pptp-server] Help setting up PPTP

[Cowles, Steve]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dwight Lee [mailto:admin at fontanus.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 10:46 PM
> To: pptp-server at lists.schulte.org
> Cc: dwight at fontanus.com
> Subject: [pptp-server] Help setting up PPTP
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone out there might know how to solve this
> problem.  I'm trying to set up the following server:
> 
> ---------------- Log File Output --------------------------
> Jan  4 13:05:03 pluto kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.1
> Jan  4 13:05:03 pluto pppd[3539]: The remote system is required to
> authenticate itself
> Jan  4 13:05:03 pluto pppd[3539]: but I couldn't find any suitable
> secret (password) for it to use to do so.

Have you added your username/password to /etc/ppp/chap-secrets????

> Jan  4 13:05:03 pluto pptpd[3538]: Error reading from pppd: 
> Input/output error
> Jan  4 13:05:03 pluto pptpd[3538]: CTRL: GRE read or PTY write failed
> (gre,pty)=(6,5)

Is there possibly a firewall rule blocking the GRE protocol (47)?

Steve Cowles