On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Gary Ernst wrote:
|I'm not sure if this is the right place to report a bug. I'm hoping this
|problem has already been identified and a patch is available. Here is
|the setup and issue:
|
|I am attemting to set up a VPN per the VPN howto.
|
|Distribution: Slackware-7.1
|Kernel: 2.2.16
|ppp: 2.3.11
|
|The Linux machine has an ethernet connection to the corp. LAN. The
|default route is set to point to a cisco router on the LAN.
|
|The problem:
|
|When attempting to connect to a ppp server, negotiation fails. The
|message indicates the Peer is not authorized to use 172.24.1.1. If I
|first delete the default route all works fine except that a default
|route is set to the ppp device even though I haven't set the
|defaultroute option. (I have checked /etc/ppp/options ~/.ppprc
|options.tty(x) and /etc/ppp/peers/xxx) In attempting to isolate the
Is there a default route through the PPP interface set in /etc/ppp/ip-up
with something like "/sbin/route add default $1" ? If there is then it's
a Slackware thing, an ill-conceived attempt to help people with local
networks that connect to the Internet via PPP.
|problem I have tried a plain dial-up connection and see the same
|behavior. Again if a default route is already set, it fails. If not all
|is well. It is very easy to re-create the problem. I am no C programmer,
|but I am looking at the source and can't find where the defaultroute
|opition is defined or processed. I have located default_device.
Get pppd version 2.4.0 available via ftp from linuxcare.com.au in /pub/ppp.
The "Peer is not authorized" bug is fixed in that.
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