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

[Jerry Vonau]

Hey All:

I was able to duplicate the "receive" problem.

I was using a linux client that had the mppe 
support, but didn't state that on the command 
line or on the options file.

So there is something else to watch out for when
using the linux client.... 

On a different note, anybody have a require
encryption patch for 2.4.1?

Jerry Vonau    

Charlie Brady wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 lists at earthling.2y.net wrote:
> 
> > For mppe stateless to work, I think (its been a while), you have to have
> > both sides supporting mppe for it to work at all because the next
> 
> You always need both sides supporting mppe for it to work.
> 
> The central issue here though is whether encryption is used in one
> direction or in both. Usually you will want both.
> 
> > packet's encryption is based off the previous packet.  I may be wrong, as
> > I said its been a while.  That is why when you start loosing packets with
> > stateless, the ppp session has to stop and renegotiate encryption.
> >
> > On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Tom Eastep wrote:
> >
> > > On Monday 14 January 2002 04:20 pm, Jerry Vonau wrote:
> > > > Hey all:
> > > > >>MPPE 128 bit, stateless receive compression enabled<<
> > > >
> > > > Is the receive part not an error?? That would suggest
> > > > that encryption is for receive only, not transmit....
> > > >
> > > > Should it not be:
> > > >
> > > > MPPE 128 bit, stateless compression enabled
> 
> It depends entirely on what is negotiated, which in turn depends entirely
> on the options selected at each end of the link.
> 
> Here is the relevant code; as you can see there are three different
> possibilities:
> 
> ...
>     ccp_flags_set(f->unit, 1, 1);
>     if (ANY_COMPRESS(*go)) {
>         if (ANY_COMPRESS(*ho)) {
>             if (go->method == ho->method) {
>                 notice("%s compression enabled", method_name(go, ho));
>             } else {
>                 strlcpy(method1, method_name(go, NULL), sizeof(method1));
>                 notice("%s / %s compression enabled",
>                        method1, method_name(ho, NULL));
>             }
>         } else
>             notice("%s receive compression enabled", method_name(go, NULL));
>     } else if (ANY_COMPRESS(*ho))
>         notice("%s transmit compression enabled", method_name(ho, NULL));
> ...
> 
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