Experienced exactly same behavior (using commercial PureVPN service). When traffic spikes (torrents or direct downloads via browser) my VPN connection died. syslog showed: 'No response to 5 echo-requests'.
The patch of mwhudson works for me perfect. Running Ununtu 12.04. Kudo's for Michael Hudson-Doyle! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/681617 Title: pptp stops receiving packets when bandwidth spike To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pptp-linux/+bug/681617/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
