pptpd problems
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.
I currently get something like the following in my logs (this log lists
daemon.debug in /etc/syslog.conf . I probably should have used
'daemon.=debug' instead):
Aug 29 12:51:20 naftali pptpd[14506]: MGR: Launching /usr/sbin/pptpctrl to handle client
Aug 29 12:51:20 naftali pptpd[14506]: CTRL: local address = 192.168.1.250
Aug 29 12:51:20 naftali pptpd[14506]: CTRL: remote address = 192.168.8.2
Aug 29 12:51:20 naftali pptpd[14506]: CTRL: pppd speed = 115200
Aug 29 12:51:20 naftali pptpd[14506]: CTRL: pppd options file = /etc/ppp/pptpd-options
Aug 29 12:51:20 naftali pptpd[14506]: CTRL: Client 192.168.1.254 control connection started
Aug 29 12:51:20 naftali pptpd[14506]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type: 1)
Aug 29 12:51:20 naftali pptpd[14506]: CTRL: Made a START CTRL CONN RPLY packet
Aug 29 12:51:20 naftali pptpd[14506]: CTRL: I wrote 156 bytes to the client.
Aug 29 12:51:20 naftali pptpd[14506]: CTRL: Sent packet to client
Aug 29 12:51:20 naftali pptpd[14506]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type: 7)
Aug 29 12:51:20 naftali pptpd[14506]: CTRL: Set parameters to 0 maxbps, 16 window size
Aug 29 12:51:20 naftali pptpd[14506]: CTRL: Made a OUT CALL RPLY packet
Aug 29 12:51:20 naftali pptpd[14506]: CTRL: Starting call (launching pppd, opening GRE)
Aug 29 12:51:20 naftali pptpd[14506]: CTRL: pty_fd = 5
Aug 29 12:51:20 naftali pptpd[14506]: CTRL: tty_fd = 6
Aug 29 12:51:20 naftali pptpd[14507]: CTRL (PPPD Launcher): Connection speed = 115200
Aug 29 12:51:20 naftali pptpd[14507]: CTRL (PPPD Launcher): local address = 192.168.1.250
Aug 29 12:51:20 naftali pptpd[14507]: CTRL (PPPD Launcher): remote address = 192.168.8.2
Aug 29 12:51:20 naftali pptpd[14506]: CTRL: I wrote 32 bytes to the client.
Aug 29 12:51:20 naftali pptpd[14506]: CTRL: Sent packet to client
Aug 29 12:51:21 naftali pptpd[14506]: GRE: read(fd=5,buffer=804d9c0,len=8196) from PTY failed: status = -1 error = Input/output error
Aug 29 12:51:21 naftali pptpd[14506]: CTRL: PTY read or GRE write failed (pty,gre)=(5,6)
Aug 29 12:51:21 naftali pptpd[14506]: CTRL: Client 192.168.1.254 control connection finished
Aug 29 12:51:21 naftali pptpd[14506]: CTRL: Exiting now
Aug 29 12:51:21 naftali pptpd[13747]: MGR: Reaped child 14506
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?
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Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
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