[pptp-server] pptpd & kernel 2.4.16

[truin at enterprise.truin.com]

Port 47?  Um, PPTPd only needs port 1723, and GRE (which is *protocol* 47, 
like TCP is protocl 6 and UDP is protocl 17)...  

-=T=-

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, David van Vyfeyken wrote:

> Hi Kai,
> 
> Looks oke to me ...
> Does your server allow incoming traffic to ports 47 and 1723 ?
> 
> And I am using pptp with ppp_mppe on linux-2.4.18 and it works great ..
> Including autoloading the modules and everything.
> 
> Regards,
> David
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kai Szymanski [mailto:kszymanski at bs-networks.de] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:20 PM
> To: David van Vyfeyken; pptp-server at lists.schulte.org
> Subject: Re: [pptp-server] pptpd & kernel 2.4.16
> 
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> thanks for your answer.
> 
> > You should check if you have ip_gre.o build with your kernel. And when
> > it's a module, that it is loaded.
> 
> www:/home/kai # lsmod
> 
> Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
> ppp_mppe               20160   0  (unused)
> ipip                    5760   0  (unused)
> ppp_deflate            39456   0  (autoclean)
> bsd_comp                4032   0  (autoclean)
> ppp_async               6080   0  (autoclean)
> ipv6                  124480  -1  (autoclean)
> ppp_generic            17704   0  [ppp_mppe ppp_deflate bsd_comp
> ppp_async]
> slhc                    4416   0  [ppp_generic]
> evdev                   3904   0  (unused)
> input                   3072   0  [evdev]
> uhci                   23624   0  (unused)
> usbcore                47584   1  [uhci]
> dmfe                   13564   1  (autoclean)
> 8139too                12896   1  (autoclean)
> iptable_nat            12564   0  (autoclean) (unused)
> ip_conntrack           12620   1  (autoclean) [iptable_nat]
> ipt_LOG                 3200  13  (autoclean)
> ipt_limit                960   2  (autoclean)
> iptable_filter          1728   0  (autoclean) (unused)
> ip_tables              10304   6  [iptable_nat ipt_LOG ipt_limit 
> iptable_filter]
> ip_gre                  7616   0  (unused)
> ext3                   58432   3
> jbd                    41684   3  [ext3]
> 
> > If you have to rebuild your kernel, I suggest upgrading to 2.4.18. The
> > linux-2.4.16-openssl-0.9.6b-mppe.patch will work ...
> 
> I allways rebuild my kernel with patch installed :) But this have no
> affect. 
> Also my modules.conf is ok (i check this several times).
>  
> Does it work with kernel 2.4.18 right (if i apply the patch) ?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> > Regards,
> >
> > David van Vyfeyken
> 
> Best regards,
>   Kai.
> 
>