On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to set up pptpd on a woody system to enable MS clients to > connect. I wanted to enable the ssl-mppe patch. Generally I needed to > patch the kernel a bit, and to patch the ppp package (patching pppd with > ppp-2.4.1-openssl-0.9.6-mppe-patch.gz was not entirely trivial, as I also > needed to remove one of the patches of the original debian package - patch > 003 (bppc or something similar)). I must say, though, that applying > patches to packages sees to involve a bit less black magic than applying > patches to RPM packages. > > I got an error message about not being able to load module > 'char-major-108' . I saw that there is an alias of 'char-major-108' to > 'ppp_generic'. However, I could not figure out what 'ppp_generic' is. > further aliasing 'ppp_generic' to 'ppp' seems to have allowed this module > to load, but I'm not really sure that this is a smart move. > > I'm currently trying to figure out exactly what I need to write in the > pptpd_options file and how I need to configure the clients. >
[syslog snipped] > What bothers me here is that I can't see anything from pppd in the logs. I > have > 'debug' set in pptpd-options . Even if I run 'pppd debug' (as root') I get > a couple of lines of garbage, but I see nothing in this log. Yet the man > page claims that pppd debugging goes to syslog as deamon.debug . What am I > doing wrong here? Sorry, I needed to read README.Debian to see that ppd logging is logged as local2 , so currently my syslog entry has 'local2,daemon.=debug' I needed some more messing (it turns out some things weren't installed properly) but pptp now works. I'll just have to see how to fit it into the packet-filtering rules... -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
