[pptp-server] MPPE 128 Bit Compression?? What happen to Encryption???

Tom Eastep teastep at shorewall.net
Mon Jan 14 15:47:06 CST 2002


On Monday 14 January 2002 01:04 pm, George Vieira wrote:
> Hey People,
>
> I finally got my new kernel (old now after so long trying to get it
> working) to compile and boot with MPPE built in.
> My problem is that I still get it coming up as MPPE 128 bit Compression and
> not Encryption...
>
> Why is this happening, what have I configured wrongly?
>
> Jan 15 07:57:59 firewall pppd[1468]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
> Jan 15 07:57:59 firewall pppd[1468]: Using interface ppp0
> Jan 15 07:57:59 firewall pppd[1468]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1
> Jan 15 07:58:02 firewall pppd[1468]: MSCHAP-v2 peer authentication
> succeeded for georgev
> Jan 15 07:58:02 firewall pppd[1468]: found interface eth0 for proxy arp
> Jan 15 07:58:02 firewall pppd[1468]: local  IP address 10.10.0.254
> Jan 15 07:58:02 firewall pppd[1468]: remote IP address 10.10.0.97
> Jan 15 07:58:02 firewall pppd[1468]: MPPE 128 bit, stateless receive
> compression enabled
>

Architectually, MPPE is implemented as a ppp compressor -- it's working!

-Tom
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