Hi Darren,
can you check your dev/ directory? Maybe you are missing the pseudo TTY devices (/dev/tty*, /dev/pty*).
Stephan
Good day,
I've been trying to set up a IPSEC(2.6 kernel/KAME)/L2TPD setup over the last week, so that some users will be able to VPN into a gateway machine with their broadband connections (not dial-up). I have unfortunately not found much documentation for doing this other than the man pages, although a few HOWTO documents (http://www.funknet.org/doc/tunnel/l2tp.html, http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/freeswan-l2tp.html#L2TPconfigLinux) have so far been the most helpful.
IPSEC seems to be configured OK, but I am unfortunately still stuck on getting L2TPD/PPP to work. I've followed the howtos for configuration of l2tpd/ppp pretty closely, but I have a feeling that there are some steps that I am missing that were not covered in these documents.
Here's the log messages:
Jun 1 10:55:45 vpn1 l2tpd[4971]: control_finish: Connection established to a.b.c.d, 1701. Local: 44352, Remote: 4. LNS session is 'default' Jun 1 10:55:52 vpn1 l2tpd[4971]: getPtyMaster: No more free pseudo-tty's Jun 1 10:55:52 vpn1 l2tpd[4971]: start_pppd: unable to allocate pty, abandoning! Jun 1 10:55:52 vpn1 l2tpd[4971]: control_finish: Call established with a.b.c.d, Local: 26293, Remote: 1, Serial: 0
Googling for this error message reveals one person on this list who encountered this problem after some time, but, this happens right away, every time.
I've also only been able to get this far by having l2tpd bound to the external interface. If I bind it only to the internal interface, it never receives the connection from the Windows client. I had planned to resolve this problem later, but, I'm not sure if it's related to this problem.
Fedora Core 2, 2.6.5-1.358smp kernel, l2tpd installed from l2tpd-0.69-9jdl rpm file, ppp 2.4.2.
l2tpd.conf:
[global]
; listen-addr = 10.0.77.27
[lns default]
ip range = 10.0.77.120-10.0.77.126
local ip = 10.0.77.119
require chap = yes
refuse pap = yes
require authentication = yes
name = VPNserver
ppp debug = yes
pppoptfile = /etc/ppp/options.l2tpd
length bit = yes
10.0.77.27 is the internal address of the server, the remaining addresses are reserved for use by this server.
Thanks in advance for anyone who can help!
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