[pptp-server] Linux client to PPTP server (kernel > 2.4.10) success

Vladimir Strezhnev vlast at indivisuallearning.com
Mon Jan 28 13:38:59 CST 2002


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Did anybody succeed in connecting linux pptp client on 2.2 x kernels to pptpd 
server on  kernels > 2.4.10 ?
After upgrade to 2.4.16 our pptpd server can only handle Windows clients. 
According to recent postings on the Sourceforge, nobody cares of the issue :-(


On Friday 25 January 2002 11:18, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not on this list but thought to post my solution to the
> problems with Linux clients getting error about GRE not being
> available when server kernel is over version 2.4.10.
>
> My client and server are both 2.4.16 with MPPE patches. I also
> got the GRE: protocol not available error.
>
> But if I load the ip_gre module on the client before connecting,
> everything goes fine. So before starting pptp client, do
> modprobe ip_gre
>
> This worked for me, YMMV.
>
> - Jari
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