maybe it has something to do with MPPE ? As far as I understood, you need mppe enabled pptp and some kernel module ?
please correct me if I wrong. Oleg. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Sternberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LinuxIL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 10:26 AM Subject: Problems with pptp client and PopTop VPN server > > Hello > > I'm trying to establish PPtP VPN connection between two Linux > boxes using pptp client and pptpd (poptop) server. > > The most annoying thing is that I'm able to connect to MS VPN > server using pptp client and I'm able to connect to Linux pptpd > server using MS VPN connection. > > Problem is from Linux to Linux. > > I started both client and server in debug mode. > Client starts to send LCP ConfReq in loop. > Server prints messages saying: > "pppd : Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyp1" > "pptpd: GRE: read from network failed: status=-1 error=Protocol not available" > "pptpd: CTRL: GRE read or PTY write failed (gre,pty)=(5,4)" > "pptpd: CTRL: Client control connection finished" > "pptpd: CTRL: Exiting now" > "pptpd: MGR: Reaped child" > "pppd : Modem hangup" > "pppd : Connection terminated" > and quits. > > I tried first without ip_gre modules loaded - it still worked with > MS apps. Loading ip_gre module did not changed the situation on > Linux vs. Linux connections. > > Please help. > Michael. > > -- > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
