[pptp-server] VPN

[Jarvis McKenzie]

David,


Evening ...it's me again - thanks for the pointers.  However, I'm still
experiencing connection difficulties.

The connection is made initially and then thus far has either timed out or
prematurely exited before the connection has been established.

chap/pap2-secrets have been edited as follows:

# client    server  secret          IP addresses

NAME 		SERVERNAME	PASSWORD	CLIENT_IP:SERVER_IP

Has the "IP addresses" field been entered properly ?


pap-secrets has apparently been auto-edited (well, at least I didn't put it
in there) as follows:

caiman ppp0 XXXXXXXXX

(what's the "ppp0" about and I'm guessing the random string is a password
after encryption ...make that a weak encryption ..it's almost guessable
looking at it ..infact I've had to X it out !! :-))

I have copied the sample "options" file supplied and proceeded to
systematically comment / uncomment options with no success.

I have edited "/etc/ppp/resolv.conf" to reflect the proper name server.  Is
there anything else I'm missing or should check ??? (AAAAARGGGGH)

syslog - last connection attempt:

May 10 17:11:52 m pptpd[32599]: CTRL: pppd options file = /etc/ppp/options
May 10 17:11:52 m pptpd[32599]: CTRL: Client 192.168.0.26 control connection
started
May 10 17:11:52 m pptpd[32599]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type:
1)
May 10 17:11:52 m pptpd[32599]: CTRL: Made a START CTRL CONN RPLY packet
May 10 17:11:52 m pptpd[32599]: CTRL: I wrote 156 bytes to the client.
May 10 17:11:52 m pptpd[32599]: CTRL: Sent packet to client
May 10 17:12:57 m pptpd[32599]: CTRL: Sending ECHO REQ id 1
May 10 17:12:57 m pptpd[32599]: CTRL: Made a ECHO REQ packet
May 10 17:12:57 m pptpd[32599]: CTRL: I wrote 16 bytes to the client.
May 10 17:12:57 m pptpd[32599]: CTRL: Sent packet to client
May 10 17:14:02 m pptpd[32599]: CTRL: Session timed out, ending call
May 10 17:14:02 m pptpd[32599]: CTRL: Client 192.168.0.* control connection
finished
May 10 17:14:02 m pptpd[32599]: CTRL: Exiting now
May 10 17:14:35 m pptpd[32608]: CTRL: pppd options file = /etc/ppp/options
May 10 17:14:35 m pptpd[32608]: CTRL: Client 192.168.0.* control connection
started
May 10 17:14:35 m pptpd[32608]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type:
1)
May 10 17:14:35 m pptpd[32608]: CTRL: Made a START CTRL CONN RPLY packet
May 10 17:14:35 m pptpd[32608]: CTRL: I wrote 156 bytes to the client.
May 10 17:14:35 m pptpd[32608]: CTRL: Sent packet to client
May 10 17:15:40 m pptpd[32608]: CTRL: Sending ECHO REQ id 1
May 10 17:15:40 m pptpd[32608]: CTRL: Made a ECHO REQ packet
May 10 17:15:40 m pptpd[32608]: CTRL: I wrote 16 bytes to the client.
May 10 17:15:40 m pptpd[32608]: CTRL: Sent packet to client
May 10 17:16:45 m pptpd[32608]: CTRL: Session timed out, ending call
May 10 17:16:45 m pptpd[32608]: CTRL: Client 192.168.0.* control connection
finished
May 10 17:16:45 m pptpd[32608]: CTRL: Exiting now

options file:

servername SERVER_PPTP_IS_ON
#lock
#auth
#debug
#require-chap


Thanks for your time and patience.
~


All the best,



Jarvis.

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