[pptp-server] HELP pptpd shat itself.

[Matthew Gavin]

> I also had this problem (messages.2:Jun 26 14:40:59 Gateway pptpd[3384]:
> GRE: read(fd=5,buffer=804d940,len=8196) from PTY failed: status = -1 error =
> Input/output error) when using the pppd rpm (ppp-mppe-2.4.1-4.i386.rpm) from
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/poptop/, I went back to a pppd rpm I found
> elsewhere (ppp-2.4.1-3mppe.i386.rpm) and it works ok again now, I notice the
> latest pppd rpm on sourceforge page is now ppp-mppe-2.4.1-5.i386.rpm (notice
> the -5) , perhaps that version fixes the problem? How did you fix it ?
>
> Andy

I tried a number of different ppp RPM's. The only one that worked for me was
ppp-2.4.1-3mppe which is very simmilar to what you used... The new rpm at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/poptop/ - ppp-mppe-2.4.1-5.i386.rpm did not work at all.